Incident date: 2018-03-19
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was standing on top of a mobile crane's stabilizer, calibrating the boom while holding onto part of it with his hand. The boom came down and started to pinch his fingers. When he pulled his hand out, he lost his balance and fell about 9 feet to the ground, breaking both legs (a compound fracture to one leg). He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate