Incident date: 2025-06-12
NAICS industry code: 424510

Employees were loading a set of grain hoppers. A lid blew shut on the next car to be loaded. While flipping the hopper lid back open, an employee fell from the top of the rail car to the ground 14 feet below. He suffered two compound fractures to one leg and a fracture to the other leg/ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Heavy rail vehicles  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate