Incident date: 2025-04-09
NAICS industry code: 333993

An employee had just driven a forklift onto a trailer and was stepping down from the forklift cab onto the trailer bed. He stepped onto a chain/buckle system (used to secure the forklift to the trailer bed during travel) and fell from the deck. He suffered a head laceration and two broken vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle trailers, trailing units
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate