Incident date: 2019-09-13
NAICS industry code: 561730

On September 13, 2019, an employee was pruning branches when the tie-in point for the rope broke. The employee fell 18 feet to the ground, fracturing a vertebra in his back.

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate