Incident date: 2025-03-20
NAICS industry code: 238150

An employee was throwing trash into a dumpster while he was inside a cage on a forklift. The employee lost his balance and fell 3 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and a scrape on their left elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate