Incident date: 2018-08-29
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was working on a raised platform, tightening a pipe with a pipe wrench. As he was pushing the wrench forward, the wrench slipped, which carried him forward and caused him to fall approximately 3 feet. He fractured his right femur. The platform did not have guardrails at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate