Incident date: 2016-08-30
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was sanding the top of the wing of a C-130. Another employee noticed his eyes rolled back as he appeared to lose consciousness. The employee fell approximately 2 feet from the top of the wing to the wing stand resulting in injuries to the employee's face and throat that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Airplane-powered fixed wing, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head and neck
severity: moderate