Incident date: 2022-04-22
NAICS industry code: 336611

At the end of their shift, a shuttle lift (gantry crane) operator was descending the shuttle lift via the equipment ladder. While stepping from the third to last rung, the employee missed their footing and fell approximately 3 feet onto metal plates, landing in a sitting position. The employee sustained a fractured lumbar vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate