Incident date: 2021-01-25
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee had been securing a load on a trailer with straps. The employee tried to step up onto palleted material when his left knee gave out, causing him to fall 4.5 feet to the pavement, resulting in injury to both knees.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate