Incident date: 2015-02-20
NAICS industry code: 331210

On February 20, 2015, an employee conducting preventative maintenance work on a heater was injured when the scissor lift he was standing on was struck by the structural steel beam for a gantry crane. He suffered multiple fractures on both sides of his body, as well as a dislocated left hip, when he fell approximately 15 feet to the ground.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate