Incident date: 2023-08-29
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was standing on a bridge girder. He was swinging a sledgehammer when it got caught in the horizontal safety line and caused the employee to lose balance. He fell 16 feet to the dirt ground below, landing on his left side. He sustained a fractured L5 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Girders, beams, structural steel
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate