Incident date: 2015-02-26
NAICS industry code: 238220

Employee was servicing an HVAC unit at a customer's facility. While disassembling the chiller, the employee stepped off the chiller barrel onto a pipe. The employee's foot slipped off the pipe causing him to fall approximately four feet resulting in a broken rib.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate