Incident date: 2024-08-18
NAICS industry code: 237990

On August 18, 2024, at 7:30 PM, an employee loaded a milling machine onto a lowboy trailer. While raising the lowboy deck, the welds broke on the trailer and the trailer dropped to the ground, landing on the employee's right foot. The employee's foot was crushed and multiple bones were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), toe(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate