Incident date: 2025-03-03
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was dismounting the operator seat of a digger truck and descending the ladder when he stepped onto a utility pole and grabbed onto the hand on the cover of the operator's control station. The operator's control station top flipped open and he lost his balance and fell from the truck to the ground. The employee sustained a dislocated left shoulder and a fractured left tibia near his ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate