Incident date: 2016-08-08
NAICS industry code: 237120

Workers were offloading jersey barriers from a trailer when they lost control of one of the jersey barriers, causing it to strike an employee in the back. The employee rolled off the trailer and laid down on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with L2 and L3 vertebrae fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Guardrails, road dividers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate