Incident date: 2021-09-15
NAICS industry code: 238350

On September 15, 2021, at approximately 8:15 a.m. an employee was driving an aerial lift when the bottom of the front basket caught the edge of a B-Box water flow control valve. The employee continued to raise the aerial lift until the B-Box valve broke and the employee was ejected out of the aerial lift basket onto the front edge of the home's concrete slab. The employee fell 6 feet and was hospitalized for a severe neck injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate