Incident date: 2021-08-26
NAICS industry code: 238160

On August 26, 2021, an employee was working from an aerial lift basket, installing metal wall panels on a new building. He fell out of the basket, landed 10 feet below on a lower canopy roof, then bounced/rolled off and fell 15 feet to the dirt ground. He suffered a broken wrist, broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, and a punctured lung and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate