Incident date: 2019-02-02
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was standing on a pipe trailer to disconnect cabling from a pipe that had just been loaded. While reaching to disconnect the cabling, the employee lost footing and fell 7 to 8 feet from the trailer to the ground. The employee landed on the right hip, causing fractured vertebrae in the lower back. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate