Incident date: 2020-01-12
NAICS industry code: 311613

An employee was exiting the cab of a tractor to hook up airlines from the trailer. As he put his right foot on the bottom step, his foot slipped and he fell backwards to the ground onto his left hip.  The fall resulted in a fracture to his left hip that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate