Incident date: 2023-05-02
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was pressure washing a lift station when she fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below. Halfway down, the employee stopped falling until her harness broke. She continued to fall the rest of the way, resulting in two left leg fractures and shoulder pain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate