Incident date: 2015-11-13
NAICS industry code: 238290

On November 13, 2015, at approximately 2:30 PM, an employee was working from an aerial lift and signaling a crane lifting a pipe. The crane was overloaded, tipped, and struck the aerial basket the employee was riding in.  The employee was bounced out of the aerial lift. When the crane sat back down, the employee was bounced back in the aerial lift and back out again. The employee suffered a spinal fracture, broken ribs, and multiple facial fractures, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate