Incident date: 2020-04-07
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was fixing a crossup at the sorter incline chain. The employee was attempting to get on the grating under the incline chain when his foot slipped and he fell in-between the guardrail and the grating. He fell 14 feet to the floor, hitting an airline on the way down. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured skull and possible fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate