Incident date: 2025-07-16
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was performing maintenance work on the inside of a water tower. While climbing out of the tank using a rope ladder, he lost his footing and fell approximately 20 feet to the bottom of the tank. The employee was hospitalized with a contusion to the back of his head and a fracture to his hip/pelvic area. The employee was wearing fall protection equipment but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and hip joint(s)
severity: moderate