Incident date: 2015-01-20
NAICS industry code: 322220

An employee was helping the truck driver load equipment onto a flatbed truck. They were covering the equipment with a tarp. The tarp began to slip, causing the employee to lose balance and fall onto the concrete platform 4 feet below the flatbed surface. The employee was taken to Willis Knighton North Medical Center and admitted. The employee suffered a compression fracture to the L-1 Vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate