Incident date: 2015-09-15
NAICS industry code: 238320

Employees were descending a water tower in suspended scaffolding. About 30 to 40 feet above the ground, one of the motors locked up and the scaffold stopped. One of the employees detached his rope lanyard from his harness and attempted to slide down another rope lanyard. The employee fell off the rope hitting the ground and fracturing both legs and suffering severe rope burns on this hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Lifelines, lanyards, safety belts, harnesses
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate