Incident date: 2020-05-26
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was on a barge, pulling rigging on top of a stack of steel pipe pilings. He fell off the end of the stack, landed on crane mats used as dunnage, then fell 7 feet to the deck of the barge. His right leg struck a 6-by-6 piece of dunnage lying on the deck, and he suffered a broken femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on water vehicle
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate