Incident date: 2025-07-26
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was cleaning the brine tank and went to activate the dumper switch, which was down and around a corner from where he was positioned. The employee reached down and around to flip the switch. The movable stairs he was on then became unsteady and overturned. He fell to the ground and sustained fractures to his wrist, femur, hip, and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Portable stairs
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate