Incident date: 2024-09-16
NAICS industry code: 541613

An employee was on top of a billboard display on the lower catwalk. The employee loosened the straps that secured the vinyl leading to a pair of butler sections in the front part of the billboard. This action caused four butler sections to slip, and one of them struck the employee. The employee fell off the catwalk, however, the fall was properly arrested. The employee sustained a broken right arm and a laceration to the back of the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
code_source: title: Catwalks
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate