Incident date: 2018-08-26
NAICS industry code: 331314

While taping an aluminum reverb, an employee believed that molten metal was over-flowing the trough and melting oxygen lines on the floor. The employee then jumped over the handrail of an elevated work platform and fell approximately 5 to 6 feet to the floor below, injuring his left elbow and fracturing the left side of his hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate