Incident date: 2017-05-18
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was working inside a dryer to change out a turn-flow. He was stepping on a 2-inch x 10 ft. board to hook his lanyard when the board broke and he fell 50 feet to the hard surface below, fracturing his skull and breaking his collarbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate