Incident date: 2022-02-23
NAICS industry code: 442110

An employee was on the back of a truck, pulling a trash box onto the truck's lift gate. His foot slipped off the ramp, and he fell backward off the lift gate and landed on his back on the concrete street. He suffered broken vertebra in the lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate