Incident date: 2024-03-22
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was using a battery-powered scissor lift to load a trailer. The scissor lift shut off halfway up the ramp leading into the back of the trailer, drifted backward, and fell off the side of the ramp. The employee rolled with the scissor lift, jumped off, and was crushed. The employee suffered an open fracture to the left elbow and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  fall or jump from and struck by moving vehicle
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate