Incident date: 2015-12-03
NAICS industry code: 339113

An employee entered an oven from a side access door located 12 feet aboveground to clean and clear the rollers of the coating machine. When the employee was in the oven, she stepped onto a pressure release trap door, causing the door to open. She fell 12 feet to the ground below, sustaining multiple fractures to her right ankle and possibly lower back fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate