Incident date: 2023-10-23
NAICS industry code: 221117

An employee was working in the cooling tower to replacing fill braces. While cleaning up after job completion, they fell from a plank that was 5 feet from the floor of the cooling tower basin. The employee was taken to the hospital for neck pain and a contusion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate