Incident date: 2016-04-15
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee and coworker were working 10 feet off the ground in an aerial lift. They climbed onto a 4-foot by 5-foot wall landing and were trying to bend a piece of rebar when the injured employee lost his balance and tripped into his coworker. Both employees fell from the wall landing. The injured employee landed on his back, breaking it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Structures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate