Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 122093.015 - Employee injures vertebrae when struck in head and neck by u

Accident Summary Nr: 122093.015 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 08/09/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1430960.015	09/03/2019		484110	Gordon Peard Trucking Inc.

Abstract: At 7:30 a.m. on August 9, 2019, Employee #1, a truck driver, was delivering a load of logs to a lumber mill. He parked his truck at the stanchion stations. He engaged the stanchion arms out against the load and began removing the wrappers from the load. He removed the middle wrapper and bent down to throw the wrapper under the truck. When Employee #1 started to stand up, he was struck in the head and neck areas by a short log that had become unsecured from the load. He sustained injuries to his C2 and C3 vertebrae from being struck by the log and was hospitalized.

Keywords: Driver, Fracture, Head, Log, Log Trailer, Log Truck, Lumber, Lumber Stack, Neck, Struck By, Truck, Unsecured, Vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1430960.015	63	M	Hospitalized injury		Truck drivers, heavy

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