Incident date: 2025-02-15
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was performing a conveyor belt replacement in a freezer. The employee fell through a hatch opening, struck his head on the metal opening, and landed 8 feet below on the metal floor at the bottom of the ladder. The employee was hospitalized with a chipped tooth, broken collar bone, punctured lung, and cut on the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate