Incident date: 2020-09-16
NAICS industry code: 488510

An employee was walking on an elevated walkway approximately 20 feet high to reach a camera that needed repair. As he walked past another employee who was also walking on the walkway, he fell through an opening in the hand rail. The employee sustained a broken right arm, a fractured L-4 vertebra and a laceration to the face that require stitches. The employee required surgery to repair a fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Catwalks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate