Incident date: 2017-09-20
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was blowing down a chemical tank. As he was unhooking the connection line from the blower machine, he fell approximately 10 feet to the cement ground and may have hit the metal tank on the way down. He suffered impact injuries to the head and face and was hospitalized. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate