Incident date: 2022-07-21
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was replacing/repairing instrumentation on top of a storage tank. The employee fell from the tank onto the concrete secondary containment structure 12-15 feet below and suffered fractured back vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate