Incident date: 2016-10-20
NAICS industry code: 999999

An employee was in an aerial lift washing down plant equipment with a fire hose. The fire hose became tangled in the aerial lift causing it to tip over and the employee fell 16 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury, a collapsed lung and a laceration on the throat.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate