Incident date: 2015-08-25
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee climbed on top of a 55 gallon barrel to retrieve some equipment from a rack, lost his balance, and fell four feet into an empty stainless steel vat below causing him to fracture five ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate