Incident date: 2022-10-25
NAICS industry code: 332996

At about 9:00 a.m. on October 25, 2022, an employee was performing maintenance on the billet pump and deflector in a furnace. When exiting the furnace, the employee fell approximately 13 feet through a floor hole to the concrete below. The employee sustained a fractured right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate