Incident date: 2023-08-29
NAICS industry code: 532412

An employee was in the basket of an aerial lift while unloading it from a flatbed trailer. The brake released, causing the aerial lift to strike another lift. The employee sustained a partially collapsed lung, rib fractures, and bleeding from the kidneys.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate