Incident date: 2018-01-11
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was working at elevation, installing fitting support brackets on instrument air piping, when he fell 25 to 30 feet to the ground. He was tied off, but his fall protection disengaged about halfway down, allowing him to hit the ground. He suffered a fractured left forearm, multiple fractured ribs, a skull fracture, and a hematoma/brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Structures and surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate