Incident date: 2022-06-20
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was connecting his personal fall arrest system (PFAS) lanyard to a horizontal lifeline positioned on a bridge beam when he fell approximately 8 feet to the rocks below. The employee was hospitalized with facial fractures and head trauma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate