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Report: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified at Dow Freeport Texas Operations in Freeport, Texas

DATE: 05/15/17

An employee was ascending a portable ladder/platform system. The employee got to the top of the platform system and fell through the opening that would normally go over the man-hole of a tractor trailer, suffering a fractured heel and tibia.

Report ID 2017054389  
Date 05/15/2017  
UPA 1217074  
Inspection 1234563  
Primary NAICS 325110  
Nature 111 Fractures
Part of Body 5819 Foot(feet) and leg(s), n.e.c.
Source 6340 Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
Event 4320 Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
Hospitalized Yes  
Amputation No  

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