Incident date: 2021-04-26
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was standing at the edge of the furnace pit and was going to push out the lining on the furnace. The employee fell approximately 20 feet into the furnace tank and sustained broken vertebrae, two broken ribs, and a brain bleed. The employee was not wearing fall protection at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Furnaces, heaters
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate