Incident date: 2018-01-17
NAICS industry code: 333112

An employee climbed onto a mower that was raised 18 inches on a final assembly platform to install a steering wheel. As the employee was climbing down from the mower, her foot missed the 18-inch platform and she fell to the concrete plant floor, fracturing her L4 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Machine platforms
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate