Incident date: 2021-02-11
NAICS industry code: 424510

An employee was using an articulating wheel loader to unload a customer's truck. The employee was backing the loader into a position parallel to the customer's truck when the loader struck the auger on the rear of a parked fertilizer truck. The employee was hospitalized with injury to the right side of their lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
code_source: title: Loaders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate