Incident date: 2021-06-10
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was exiting the rear of a rail car by the fixed ladder on the rail car when they fell approximately 18 feet, resulting in a fractured wrist and laceration to the face that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate