Incident date: 2024-04-29
NAICS industry code: 424710

On April 29, 2024, at around 8:45 AM, an employee was making a fuel delivery to a 300-gallon fuel tank that was located on top of pea gravel at a customer's site. The gravel started to shift during the delivery and the employee jumped from their step ladder about 24-30 inches to the gravel to avoid the tank and then fell. The employee sustained a laceration to their left eyebrow and three broken ribs on their left side.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate