Incident date: 2018-01-31
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was in a harness and was raised in the air with a winch line to remove a T-valve on top of a pipe. As the operator raised him up, the counterweight of the winch became caught on the tubing board and built up tension on the winch line. As the tension built up on the winch, it gave way and catapulted the employee through the air.  The employee suffered pelvic injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Pelvic region, unspecified
severity: moderate