Incident date: 2020-05-27
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was painting a water tower with a pneumatic paint sprayer. While on top of the water tower, the employee slipped and fell over the edge striking the catwalk and then the ground about 100 feet below. He was hospitalized for multiple fractures. The employee was wearing a harness with a lanyard attachment, but the lanyard was not attached to an anchor point.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Towers, poles, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate