Incident date: 2017-02-23
NAICS industry code: 424720

On 2/23/17, at approximately 2:50 PM CST an employee was standing on a standard gauge rail track operating a railcar's handbrake apparatus when the employee lost his footing/slipped and fell on his hip fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Railroad tracks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate