Incident date: 2023-10-23
NAICS industry code: 335313

An employee had stepped into a company van to retrieve hardware/parts. As he was stepping  backward out of the rear of the van, his pant leg snagged on the trailer hitch under the bumper. The employee fell backward out of the van, landing on his left hand and arm and sustaining fractures to the left distal radius and ulnar styloid.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate