Incident date: 2019-10-08
NAICS industry code: 541320

An employee was unloading plant material from a tractor trailer. The employee was using a plant hook to grab the plastic container and pull the container to the rear of the trailer. As he neared the back of the trailer, the container broke and the associate fell from the trailer, suffering a broken femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate