Incident date: 2021-05-11
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was on top of a trencher to put a cover on its exhaust manifold when he slipped off the trencher and fell 5.5 feet to the ground, resulting in five broken ribs, a lacerated spleen, and a lacerated liver. It was raining at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trenchers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate