Incident date: 2016-09-28
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was performing maintenance on the underside of an airplane wing and was standing on a pump stand. When finished, he turned and fell from the stand onto the chain guards. The chain guard broke at the attachment to the stand and the employee fell approximately 7 feet to a concrete floor. He sustained an open gash head injury, fractured ribs, and fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate