Incident date: 2020-04-17
NAICS industry code: 332312

The injured employee climbed up a ladder to access the top of a concrete ledge, which was part of the support structure for a furnace, and was standing on the north side of a cylinder as another employee was operating a lift to align the pin on top of the cylinder. A third employee was working a come-a-long to help align the cylinder top. The injured employee was flagging from the platform when he fell approximately 8 feet, landing on the concrete surface below. He was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and fibula in the left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate