Incident date: 2018-10-20
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was rolling caution tape while walking backwards near a concrete manhole opening when he tripped and fell backwards into the open manhole, hitting his head on the concrete manhole rim. He suffered a skull fracture and bleeding in the brain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Sewers, manholes, storm drains
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate