Incident date: 2015-04-26
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was installing a fan guard on a refrigeration unit and fell from a one man lift.  The employee had a harness with a single lanyard on at the time of the incident.  He reached up to put guards on top of the unit.  As he was trying to reach a bolt at the 12 o'clock position, he stepped on the middle rail of the lift basket, disconnected the lanyard to tie off on a bracket for the refrigeration unit, flipped, and fell 25-28 feet.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Manlifts
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate