Incident date: 2016-02-18
NAICS industry code: 485999

An employee had just loaded a new car onto a railcar. As he exited the car and started to descend the railcar's fixed ladder, he lost his grip and fell approximately 15 feet to the ground. He fractured his back and left wrist and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate