Incident date: 2015-10-23
NAICS industry code: 237120

On October 23, 2015, at approximately 1:00pm, a an employee was hospitalized after suffering a compression fracture to his back and laceration to his head.  The employee was driving an extendible boom manlift across a designated railroad crossing.  The machine malfunctioned and stopped with the bucket portion of the lift above the railroad tracks.  As a train arrived, the employee untied his harness and jumped from the bucket approximately 10' out and 6' down landing on a gravel surface.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate