Incident date: 2024-10-29
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was on the back of a pickup truck helping to unspool wire from a large wire reel. The employee was exiting the truck, tripped over the elevated lift on the back of the truck and fell. As he was falling he jumped to avoid a partially lowered liftgate. His right foot landed on the asphalt and his left foot landed in a ground cable trench, resulting in multiple fractures to his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate