Incident date: 2016-01-13
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was waiting on a truck to unload pallets.  A strap got stuck on the pallets, so he climbed up to dislodge it. He fell 15 to 20 feet backwards off the truck and hit his back and head, suffering a concussion. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Concussions
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate