Incident date: 2019-03-27
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was using a vacuum to suction sand out from the bottom of an air filter bed used to filter fiberglass during paper production. The employee stepped down from a plywood plank being used as a temporary work platform; the employee's foot got caught between two dividers in the filter bed, causing the employee to fall. The employee suffered a torn anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate