Incident date: 2024-06-13
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was working on reinforcing steel rebar while wearing a full body harness with a retractable hook. The bar that the employee was hooked to bent and the fall protection slid off, causing the employee to fall 12-15 feet to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured skull, damaged ear canal, broken bones in the face, a broken collar bone, three brain bleeds, a collapsed lung, and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate