Incident date: 2019-08-26
NAICS industry code: 115310

Two employees were exploring an area within the forest and conducting a field botanical survey. The area included steep, rocky ground and talus slopes. One employee slipped/fell on the rocks of a slope and tumbled 45 feet toward a creek bed. The employee sustained head lacerations, fractures to the C-4  and C-5 vertebrae, and body bruising.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Raised natural structures, hills, mountains, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate