Incident date: 2017-04-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was chipping gunite from the underside of steel beams using pneumatic tools while in an aerial lift. A large piece of material (approx. 600 pounds) broke loose and fell into the lift basket, overloading it and putting it into an automatic slow descent. The employee fell and the lift basket struck him resulting in multiple cracked vertebrae, and head, wrist and knee injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate