Incident date: 2015-09-23
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was approximately 16 feet aboveground sitting on a steel horizontal beam. He was installing bolts to replace the studs that he connected to the holders. As another beam was being drifted in by the crane, the beam that he was sitting on became dislodged and fell to the ground along with the employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Girders, beams, structural steel
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate