Incident date: 2018-03-08
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was using a board hook to try to pull a crate out of a trailer, but it did not latch onto the crate. The employee pulled and fell backwards out of the trailer to the ground, fracturing a wrist and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate