Incident date: 2023-08-11
NAICS industry code: 561210

An employee climbed up on an elevated sidewalk and stepped onto a dumpster to push a piece of scrap steel into the dumpster. He lost balance and fell about 5.5 feet onto the asphalt road surface. The piece of scrap steel then fell on top of him. The employee sustained a head injury including a laceration, a fractured sternum, and a fractured left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate