Incident date: 2018-03-15
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was helping to load a dump truck with construction debris when, unbeknownst to him, another employee lowered the truck's lift gate. When he attempted to walk backward out of the truck, the lift gate was no longer there to support him and he fell 3.5 feet to the lift gate below, fracturing his L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate