Incident date: 2018-03-25
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was standing on coiled wire while removing strapping from other coiled wire inside the cargo hold of a vessel. As the employee was removing the strapping, he fell approximately 8 to 10 feet from the coiled wire he was standing on down onto the metal deck below. He sustained fractures to his lumbar spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on water vehicle
code_source: title: Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner, ship, excluding sail-powered
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate