Incident date: 2023-04-14
NAICS industry code: 236220

Employees were erecting structural steel. The injured employee was sitting on a 12" wide horizontal member and lining up an I-beam brace as it was suspended by an overhead crane. He leaned left to push the end of the brace. The end of the suspended brace swung away from him, causing him to lose balance and fall 8 feet. His personal fall arrest system arrested his fall, but he swung into a piece of duct work during the fall that resulted in a concussion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Girders, beams, structural steel
code_nature: title: Concussions
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate