Incident date: 2018-04-20
NAICS industry code: 488190

An employee was conducting maintenance work in the cargo area of an aircraft. The employee was leaning on the guardrails of the elevated work platform when the hinge on the guardrail failed and the employee fell approximately 4 feet, landing on a work bench below and injuring his lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate