Incident date: 2019-12-17
NAICS industry code: 324191

On December 17, 2019, at 11:00 AM, two employees were in a scissor lift in an elevated position repairing a natural gas furnace. One of the employees was not contained by the safety gear of the scissor lift and fell approximately 8 feet onto the floor of the warehouse. The employee sustained a fractured skull, fractured vertebrae, and bleeding on the brain as a result of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate