Incident date: 2018-06-29
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was working on an aircraft carrier in drydock. While climbing across from one tower of free standing staging to another, he fell, landing on the dock floor about 30 feet below. He was hospitalized, having suffered two compound fractures in his left arm that required surgery, bruised kidneys/spleen, and a broken left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures (except rib, trunk fractures) and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate