Incident date: 2016-12-20
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was unbolting a storage tank when he stepped on a 3-foot segment of a grated platform that was not secured. He then fell 15 feet to the concrete floor below, breaking his left hip and requiring overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate