Incident date: 2020-06-19
NAICS industry code: 336510

An employee was climbing a ladder attached to a rail car, with the intention of inspecting a valve. The employee was on the fourth rung, slipped, and fell to the cement ground below. The employee was hospitalized with broken leg bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate