Incident date: 2024-01-02
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was working at an electric arc furnace. The employee was cleaning ash and shoveling it down a 3-by-3-foot electrode mast hole to the level below. The electrode mast hole did not have an electrode in it due to the furnace being shut down at the time. The employee fell through the hole approximately 20 feet. The employee suffered fractures to their left shoulder, pelvis, L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae; and S1, S2, and S3 sacral bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other upper extremities
severity: moderate