Incident date: 2015-12-19
NAICS industry code: 336611

Employees were prepping a vessel for painting. The employees were using a pressure washer and working from a scissor lift.  Another employee who was moving in a scissor lift became entangled in the pressure washer line. The line was tied off to the lift with the employees who were pressure washing. That lift tipped over and fell onto a third scissor lift.  The employee suffered a dislocated tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Dislocations, unspecified
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate