Incident date: 2025-01-10
NAICS industry code: 332813

A temporary employee was on top of a 10-foot sectional barge in the sandblasting yard. They were prying up a "snapping bar" and fell from the barge to the dirt/sand ground below. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Piers, wharfs, water docks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate