Incident date: 2017-11-08
NAICS industry code: 237130

A digger derrick operator was positioning the boom off the back of a truck. He got out of the operator's chair and stepped onto the walk platform to the back of the truck to get a better view of the placement of the anchor and to instruct the ground man. He lost his footing and fell off the back of the truck resulting in a broken left elbow, a broken right wrist and facial lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
severity: moderate