Incident date: 2019-01-14
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was acting as a spotter and guiding a flatbed operator while standing on the rear passenger side of an outrigger leg when he stepped back onto a mobile crane platform and fell approximately 70 inches to the ground. He was hospitalized with an open fracture to the left ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate