Incident date: 2019-08-05
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was working from an elevated platform. When the employee grabbed a wire rope guardrail, the guardrail collapsed, and the employee fell head first approximately 6 feet into a lift basket. The employee sustained bruising to the spinal cord, fractured vertebrae, and a broken nose.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate