Incident date: 2018-10-23
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was exiting a machine's lower level. As he stepped up, he fell 1.5 feet backwards from the second riser to the floor, suffering bilateral fractures to the wrist and a head contusion. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate