Incident date: 2019-06-25
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was hooking up air lines on a trailer when the employee's heel became caught on a buffalo box (curb box). The employee then fell backwards onto a fire hydrant, fracturing the lumbar vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate