Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201178829 - Employee Is Injured in Fall from Dump Truck

Accident Summary Nr: 201178829 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 11/09/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125830828	12/05/2005	0179	111336	Pacific Farms & Orchards, Inc.

Abstract: On September 9, 2005, Employee #1, an equipment operator at an olive processing farm, was loading waste from olives after they had been pressed into the bed of a dump truck. After leveling the olive waste in the truck bed, Employee #1 stepped on the top edge of the dump bed to descend. He then slipped and fell to the gravel ground. He was hospitalized for a fractured left wrist and vertebra. Employee #1's boots were wet with oily olive waste.

Keywords: FRACTURE, WET OPERATION, DUMP TRUCK, FALL, SLIPPERY SURFACE, VERTEBRA, WORK SURFACE, DUMP TRUCK BED, UNSTABLE POSITION, WRIST

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	125830828			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Farm workers

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