Incident date: 2024-10-07
NAICS industry code: 333415

An employee was installing plastic packing in a cooling tower when they disconnected their lanyard from the fall arrest system to untangle it. They fell approximately 15 feet to a guardrail station, and then another 7 feet to the lower concrete surface in the basin of the cooling tower. The employee sustained a fractured right femur, a concussion, and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Towers, poles  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate