Incident date: 2022-09-17
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee had climbed onto the rebar lattice for one of the walls of a concrete foundation and was tying rebar together using lengths of wire. While transitioning from one location to another, the employee slipped and fell about 8 feet from the rebar lattice to the concrete foundation below resulting in a laceration to the head. The employee was wearing fall protection but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Structural elements, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate