Incident date: 2017-06-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was on a forklift platform, installing butyl tape on a metal building, when the employee fell approximately 22 feet to the ground. The employee suffered clavicle fractures, a head laceration, broken ribs, shattered vertebrae, and a spinal cord injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries to bones, nerves, spinal cord
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate