Incident date: 2025-05-21
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee was going to take a truck for a test drive. He was exiting the truck and stepped on the top step. The step came loose and caused the employee to fall to the concrete ground. His head hit the bottom of the step of the truck next to him. The employee was hospitalized with a compression fracture to his T12 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  thoracic region
severity: moderate