Incident date: 2024-06-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working to position rigging from the back of a low-boy trailer. He was walking on the top bed of the trailer when he stepped on a free-spinning tire on a tag axle (raised rear axle). The employee lost balance and jumped approximately 3 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with fractures to the right tibia and fibula and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate