PROCTOR, WEST VIRGINIA—
Chapman Corporation
Other jump to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Fractures
Final narrative
On October 23, 2015, at approximately 1:00pm, a an employee was hospitalized after suffering a compression fracture to his back and laceration to his head. The employee was driving an extendible boom manlift across a designated railroad crossing. The machine malfunctioned and stopped with the bucket portion of the lift above the railroad tracks. As a train arrived, the employee untied his harness and jumped from the bucket approximately 10' out and 6' down landing on a gravel surface.
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