Incident date: 2022-09-14
NAICS industry code: 238310

Employees were moving a 1,000-pound pallet of material toward the back of a box truck. One of them was using a hand truck, pushed under the front of the pallet, to help lift it; the hand truck slipped out and the employee fell off the back of the box truck. He landed on his head on the ground about 3 1/2 feet below, suffering a fracture to the left eye socket and a laceration in the same area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate