Incident date: 2017-06-05
NAICS industry code: 712190

On June 5, 2017, at 11:50 AM, an employee was directing a tour of elementary school children and  attempting to retrieve biological samples from the Lackawanna River with a net. The employee dropped the net into the river. While attempting to retrieve the net, the employee fell down an 8-foot embankment and landed in the river, breaking three ribs and four vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Embankments
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate