Incident date: 2021-04-22
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was tying down a crane boom onto a flatbed trailer. As he was on the flatbed, securing the boom with tiedowns, he lost his grip and fell about 5 feet. He hit a box trailer and then the gravel ground, suffering damaged vertebrae in the lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate