Incident date: 2020-09-23
NAICS industry code: 238990

On September 23, 2020, an employee had been decommissioning a bundle puller on a flatbed trailer. The employee went to descend from the trailer, swung his leg over the side of the trailer and lost balance, falling into the forks of a forklift that was parked parallel to the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with broken ribs and a possible spleen injury.

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: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate