Incident date: 2016-12-22
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was cleaning out a gate valve while on a scissor lift about 15 feet in the air. As the employee opened the inspection door on the valve, hot ash dislodged and landed on the lift's control panel. The hot ash on the control panel made it impossible to lower the lift. The employee manually lowered himself from the lift and fell on his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate