Incident date: 2018-10-31
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was installing tubing, joining connections onto structural beams. He was tied off to the beam he was trying to connect when one end of it came down, pulling him to the ground from about 15 feet up. He suffered a broken left femur and several cracked ribs and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate