Incident date: 2018-05-30
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was working from an elevated platform, 35 feet high, while wearing a harness and retractable lanyard, to change out a gear on a paper machine. He fell from the platform an estimated 2 feet before the fall protection system caught him. He sustained some leg pain possibly due to the fall protection. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate