Incident date: 2024-06-07
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was laying decking and went to move a bundle of decking with a sleever bar. The employee's sleever bar slipped and came off the bundle causing the employee to lose balance. The employee took a step back and fell 13 feet and 5 inches to the lower level, resulting in fractures to their nose, right foot, and right ankle. They were wearing fall protection at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate