Incident date: 2019-08-23
NAICS industry code: 311712

An employee had just concluded pumping fish from the fish hold on a vessel. He climbed out of the fish hold from a fixed ladder and then slipped from the main deck of the vessel, falling approximately 9 feet backwards into the fish hold and landing on his back. He was hospitalized with a stable fracture to the back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on water vehicle
code_source: title: Commercial fishing vessel
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate