Incident date: 2018-12-17
NAICS industry code: 562211

An employee had been operating an excavator inside of the gondola building. Upon exiting the vehicle, the employee fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a laceration to the right side of the head, rib fractures to his ribs and left wrist and damage to his vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate