Incident date: 2018-07-02
NAICS industry code: 532111

An employee was getting out of a 15-passenger van to go inside the office and retrieve keys to move a car to another location. He went out the back door of the van and exited backwards, mis-stepped, lost his balance, and fell backwards through the plate glass front of the building. He suffered deep wounds to his right leg and left arm (with arterial damage) and many smaller cuts on his arms, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Passenger van
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate