Incident date: 2022-04-11
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was performing routine maintenance on the discharge pipe attached to the chipper. The employee climbed onto the equipment using a ladder and was lowered to the ground using a bucket with a two-foot rim. While exiting the bucket, the employee tripped and fell head first onto the concrete ground. The employee sustained a skull fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate