Incident date: 2025-05-22
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee was framing the first floor of a structure when he lost balance and fell approximately 8-9 feet through a hole in the floor intended for the stairwell and landed on the concrete floor of the basement. The employee sustained fractures to the left side of his face and ribs, a left ear injury causing hearing loss, and a brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate