Incident date: 2023-12-20
NAICS industry code: 423390

An employee was standing inside a semi-trailer when the driver of the semi-trailer pulled away, causing the employee to fall backward and strike their head on a steel dock plate. The employee suffered a skull fracture, a fractured L1 vertebra, a broken coccyx, a laceration/abrasion to the head, and a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate