Incident date: 2017-10-25
NAICS industry code: 484122

An employee was on top of a trailer tarping a load. As he was stepping down, his right foot was caught in the plastic tarp. He tripped and fell off the top of the load, landing on the ground and suffering an open distal radius fracture with radiocarpal dislocation and an L2 compression fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate