Incident date: 2016-02-18
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was pulling a welder up to the catwalk with a rope when the left side of the catwalk railing broke, causing him to fall 25 feet to the ground below. His head hit a toolbox, and his back hit the platform railing. He was hospitalized with an L1 lumbar fracture and required staples for his head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Catwalks
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate