Incident date: 2017-08-30
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was starting to unload equipment from a trailer. The employee released the bar holding the trailer ramps up when the hydraulics failed, causing the ramp to fall on the employee. The employee suffered a head laceration, three broken ribs, a collapsed lung, and a lower back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate