Incident date: 2022-01-21
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was in a loading dock area, moving a laundry cart down a ramp, when he fell backward over the railing onto the pavement below. He landed on his back and hit his head on the asphalt. He suffered broken vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate