Incident date: 2015-08-03
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was walking on a steel beam when his personal fall protection got hung up on a wire rope clip while anchored to a horizontal life line. He fell approximately 10 feet to the steel deck below and broke his leg.

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