Incident date: 2017-10-02
NAICS industry code: 423850

An employee was working from a walk board (placed on top of rafters), installing hangers for a sprinkler system inside a cooling tower. He was wearing a harness with a retractable lanyard at the time. As he was turning around to talk to his coworker, the walk board shifted and he fell about 6 to 8 feet, ultimately hanging by his harness about 40 feet above the base of the cooling tower. He was hospitalized with a laceration, soft tissue damage, and a blood clot to his left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Towers, poles, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate