Incident date: 2018-06-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was providing air to support a bridge dismantling project. He began to walk to a truck where the air compressor was housed when his knee gave out at the top of a hill, causing him to slip down the embankment approximately 12 to 15 feet. He sustained knee injures and was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Hills
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate