Incident date: 2016-02-09
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working on top of a steel girder when he stepped down to a concrete bend that was approximately 30 inches beneath the girder and diagram. While climbing down, the employee's retractable locked up, causing the employee to lose his balance, slip, and fall against the girder and diagram, fracturing his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Bridges, dams, locks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate