Incident date: 2016-10-31
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was standing on the fender of a side-dump trailer using a torque wrench to loosen a pipe when the torque wrench broke and he fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. He hit his head, lost consciousness, and suffered facial cuts and broken ribs, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate