Incident date: 2016-10-10
NAICS industry code: 484121

On October 10, 2016, an employee was securing a load of trusses on top of a trailer with binder chains when the metal banding holding the trusses together broke, causing the load to shift and knock him off the trailer. He landed flat-footed on the ground with both feet but was knocked over and pinned beneath the trusses at ground level when they landed on his right foot and ankle. He was hospitalized with lower back and foot pain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate