Incident date: 2017-07-20
NAICS industry code: 488320

On July 20, 2017, at 11:15 p.m., an employee was trying to turn a railcar flipper. He had placed one foot on the top of a jersey wall and one foot on the railcar to position himself to move a metal bar that would move the flipper when he slipped and broke his right ankle, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Guardrails, road dividers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate