Incident date: 2024-09-25
NAICS industry code: 423720

An employee was on a lift approximately 25 feet in the air, working to pull an air conditioning unit from the top rack of the warehouse. The employee fell to the cement floor, resulting in a brain bleed, injury to his left eye, multiple fractures on the left side of his face, a fractured jaw, and six fractured ribs. The employee was not wearing fall protection at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate