Incident date: 2022-06-08
NAICS industry code: 813990

An employee was wakeboarding; being towed behind a 20-foot inboard boat. He was attempting an inverted maneuver that included jumping from one wake to the next while doing a flip. The employee landed on top of the wake causing his board to stop; his momentum carried him forward causing impact against the board. The employee sustained an open fracture to the right tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Bodily conditions of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate