Incident date: 2019-07-30
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was performing a structural upgrade on a tower. The employee's fall protection detached when a part of the tower was removed. The employee fell about 180 feet, striking an ice cover and an ice bridge, and suffered injuries to both legs, the right arm, and the chest.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Towers, poles, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate