Incident date: 2025-05-28
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was operating a wheeled loader in the log yard. While cleaning the windshield of the bucket loader, he stood on a wheel's fender, reached for cleaning supplies, lost balance, and fell approximately 6 feet to the asphalt below. He landed on his left side. He sustained a temporal fracture, and fractures to his left scapula, ribs, and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate