Incident date: 2015-02-06
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was working on an offshore barge and fell while trying to connect a hook to a lowered boom of a crane. The employee braced his fall with his hands, fracturing his right wrist. The employee was taken to the hospital by helicopter to receive treatment. A cast was placed on the employee's right wrist and he was kept overnight for observation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes-floating, barge mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate