Incident date: 2021-09-22
NAICS industry code: 311119

On September 22, 2021, the injured employee was guiding a trainee at the bin house to make sure there was no feed in the bin.  They both walked on a catwalk towards a fixed ladder to access the head house. While transitioning onto the ladder, the injured employee lost balance and fell about 7 feet to the floor with his left leg landing on a bin cap. He was hospitalized with a compound fracture to the lower left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Catwalks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate