Incident date: 2021-02-19
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee had just finished washing out the cargo from the hopper of a barge and was pulling up the wash hose from the hopper. He lost his balance and fell into the hopper, landing on another employee (who had been feeding the hose up to him). The employee who fell suffered a closed head injury; the employee he landed on suffered a shoulder injury and a broken collarbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: low