Incident date: 2019-09-16
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was standing on top of a container while a spreader bar was being lowered. The bar swung forward, causing the employee to step back and fall approximately 9 feet off of the container and onto the dock. He broke his wrist and suffered a damaged vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate