Incident date: 2024-01-29
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was walking on a steel beam when the self-retracting lifeline attached to his safety harness locked up. This caused him to fall and strike his face on the beam; his safety glasses were also pushed into his eyelid. He sustained lacerations to his eyelid and eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
code_source: title: Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate