Incident date: 2020-01-29
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee walked to the edge of a retaining wall to throw a chain rigging onto a flatbed truck. He stepped on the edge of the concrete block retaining wall, slipped, and lost his balance, falling approximately 5 feet and landing between the flatbed truck and the retaining wall. He fractured his right tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate