Incident date: 2025-06-23
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was loading a dry vacuum onto the liftgate of his pickup truck and raised the liftgate. While standing on the ground, he went to push the vacuum into the truck. The vacuum tipped over and fell on top of him. The employee sustained four fractured ribs and a collapsed left lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Industrial vacuums
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate