Incident date: 2017-07-06
NAICS industry code: 336999

An employee was on top of a vacuum box, loosening a cap on a vent pipe with a pipe wrench, when he fell approximately 4 feet and landed in a sitting position. He suffered a compression fracture and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate