Incident date: 2025-06-13
NAICS industry code: 238120

On June 13, 2025, an employee was installing perimeter angle on top of a steel beam. He welded a short piece in place and started installing the next longer piece. He butted the two pieces together, put a weld at the joint and started to move down the angle. As he was moving down the angle, he lost his footing, grabbed the angle, and it broke loose. He then fell backward off the beam and landed on a concrete slab 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his upper right arm and a dislocated right elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Multiple arm locations
severity: moderate