Incident date: 2022-05-29
NAICS industry code: 721211

An employee was performing firefighting duties on the ground when a helicopter above the employee dropped water onto the ground as a fire retardant. The employee was struck by the water, resulting in a broken jaw and facial lacerations. The employee also sustained lacerations to the right thumb and wrist that required stitches and left knee fractures as well as general bruising to the entire body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Aircraft incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Helicopter
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate