Incident date: 2018-11-20
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee opened a trailer's doors to dump a load of scrap material, then fell through an opening in a railing into an open wood pit. The employee suffered neck fractures, as well as a head laceration (from scrap wood in the pit) that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate