Incident date: 2023-06-17
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was standing on the bed of his truck using a strap with a built-in band cutter to band a pack of beams to the headboard of his truck. The employee lost balance and fell approximately 48 inches from the bed of the truck onto the blacktop surface below. The employee landed on his left hip area, resulting in a 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(s)
severity: moderate