Incident date: 2021-11-14
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was removing a marine hanging staging scaffold when he fell approximately 25 feet to the bottom of the tank. The employee sustained a fracture to their right orbital socket, a contusion, and a compression fracture to their vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized. Fall protection was not worn at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-suspended staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate