Incident date: 2019-12-03
NAICS industry code: 337214

An employee was pulling cardboard to the back opening of a truck. There was slush that made the back of the truck slippery. The employee slipped and fell backward 4 feet from the truck to the ground, sustaining three broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a severe head laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate