Incident date: 2019-10-04
NAICS industry code: 423110

On October 4, 2019, an employee was pulling mufflers from a trailer parked against the loading dock and then stepped onto a 55-gallon drum filled with concrete to hand a muffler to a customer. The employee tripped and fell approximately 42 inches to the concrete driveway. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured eye socket, sprained wrist, twisted knee, and brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate