Incident date: 2021-01-07
NAICS industry code: 238910

Employees had just finished a vacuum test on a sewer manhole. They removed the vacuum test lid from the manhole and were moving to place it into the back of a truck when one of the employees fell into the manhole, landing 13 feet below and suffering a broken left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Sewers, manholes, storm drains
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate