Incident date: 2023-11-13
NAICS industry code: 325110

Employees were cleaning around elevated water pipes. An employee was in an aerial platform being elevated when the platform contacted a pipe, breaking it. The flow of water from the broken pipe struck the employee, causing him to lose balance and fall to ground level 10 to 12 feet below. He suffered a head laceration, a broken collarbone, and a neck injury; he was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate