Incident date: 2023-11-27
NAICS industry code: 922160

An employee was reviewing the next steps to take with the foreman when some material fell from above and landed near them. The injured employee then looked up, took a step on the catwalk, and fell through a gap, landing on the ground 15 feet below. The employee sustained three fractured vertebrae and a head laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Catwalks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate