Incident date: 2020-09-25
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was checking to see if the outrigger wire was tight enough. He grabbed onto the outrigger wire and it slipped, causing him to fall approximately 20-25 feet from the platform and into shallow water and a riverbed road below the bridge. The employee suffered multiple arm and leg fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate