Incident date: 2015-04-06
NAICS industry code: 213111

On April 6, 2015, an employee working on a rig sustained a head injury that required stitches after falling approximately 5.5 feet from the top of the scavenger tank/platform to the matting board.  Guardrails on top of the platform were removed at the time.  The employee was hospitalized overnight.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate