Incident date: 2021-06-18
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was on top of a 6-foot retainer wall to disengage a tree limb that got entangled in the wall. When the limb was freed, the employee lost their balance and fell 20 to 30 feet on the other side of the retaining wall, landing on bushes. The employee suffered contusions, bruises, and a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate