Incident date: 2016-07-11
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was working on an excavator while on a catwalk. He then attempted to get off the excavator by holding onto the rail, which was unbolted from previous maintenance work. The rail came loose, and he fell from excavator, fracturing his lower left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate