Incident date: 2022-06-02
NAICS industry code: 423830

On June 2, 2022, an employee was in a scissor lift, loading a piece of industrial equipment onto a flatbed truck. The employee was disconnecting a four-leg sling when one of its legs caught the bottom of the scissor lift, which was lifted about 8 inches. The employee fell from the scissor lift to the ground 10-12 feet below and suffered fractured vertebrae, a dislocated thumb, and a cracked rib. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate