Incident date: 2023-08-30
NAICS industry code: 336413

An employee was using a forklift to unload a freezer truck. The forklift slid out of the back of the truck and the employee fell onto the concrete pad below. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the first and third vertebrae in their lower back and a sprained ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate