Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 325212

An employee was observing a distillation column. He walked inside an area that was barricaded by a scaffold and fell approximately 25 feet, hitting a pipe on the way down. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture, facial fracture, back injury, and also needed sutures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate