Incident date: 2022-03-10
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was on top of a newly constructed railcar welding brackets. The employee slipped and slid down the side of the railcar to the floor. The employee sustained non-displaced skull and vertebrae fractures and a shin laceration and was hospitalized. The employee's fall protection was not secured at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate