Incident date: 2021-10-17
NAICS industry code: 237310

While trying to get over a double row of concrete barriers in a highway gore area, an employee fell about 40 feet in the space between two barriers, hitting a concrete apron below. The employee suffered leg and arm fractures and internal injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Concrete parking blocks and barriers
code_nature: title: Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate