Incident date: 2021-02-18
NAICS industry code: 336992

An employee was using a sewer auger machine to clear a blocked drain at a residence. He had inserted the auger into the outside clean-out when he slipped and fell into a drainage culvert, suffering fractures to the right tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ground, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate