Incident date: 2019-04-30
NAICS industry code: 336111

On April 30, 2019, an employee stepped up onto a electrical box to gain access to plastic pellets inside a hopper. Due to oil, the employee slipped and fell off the electrical box approximately 46 inches tall. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture and laceration to their left pinkie finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate