Incident date: 2018-10-27
NAICS industry code: 332510

On 10/27/18, an employee was helping to construct a parade float and was working on a wooden platform that was 54 inches off the ground. As he walked back to the ladder to exit the platform, he took a misstep off the side of the platform and fell to the ground, fracturing his thoracic vertebrae and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Structures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate