Incident date: 2015-02-04
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee fell approximately 12 feet from the top of a DOT water tank at the Naval Shipyard on February 2, 2015. The employee had been filling the tank with waste water from a naval vessel. They had just completed the job when it started to rain. The supervisor or team leader asked the victim to climb up and close the top hatch.  The victim fell off, landed head first on the asphalt, and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate