Incident date: 2025-08-22
NAICS industry code: 332420

Two employees were constructing a 30-foot-tall aboveground storage tank, fitting a double roof on the tank. Half of the roof had been stitch-welded to the tank, and the employees were fitting/tacking down the second half of the roof, when the roof shifted and fell in. One employee fell and sustained fractures to their right foot and shin. The second employee suffered a broken back. Both employees required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
severity: low