Incident date: 2019-05-30
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was removing a plywood blockout from inside a concrete box culvert segment. As the employee was sitting on the lip of the culvert and trying to grab a ladder, he fell off the culvert onto steel plate decking 3-4 below. He suffered a broken left tibia and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Culverts, nonconfined ditches
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate