Incident date: 2025-05-08
NAICS industry code: 112120

An employee was removing tires and plastic covering from a silage pile, about 13 feet high. The employee fell down the vertical face of the pile and suffered a severe laceration to the right side of his head, as well as compression fractures in his back and a fractured rib. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Slopes, embankments
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate