Incident date: 2025-07-17
NAICS industry code: 238160

On 7/17/2025, at around 1:30 PM, two employees were working in an aerial lift installing sheet metal to the side of a building. One of the connection points between the aerial lift basket and the aerial lift boom broke, causing the employees to fall from the collapsing basket. The employees fell 24 feet to the concrete surface, resulting in multiple fractures and blunt force trauma injuries to the head and body of both employees. Both employees were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries  unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: low