Incident date: 2023-03-28
NAICS industry code: 237110

On March 28, 2023, an employee was on a ladder removing an inflated sewer plug from a manhole. He was overcome by a gas and fell down to the interior base of the concrete manhole. He suffered an injury to a neck vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate