Incident date: 2024-12-19
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was unloading material stored in a crate in the bed of his pickup truck. He was repositioning the crate and pulling on it when the screws securing the wooden component failed, causing it to detach. The employee lost his balance and fell from the truck bed to the concrete. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip joint(s)
severity: moderate