Incident date: 2023-11-16
NAICS industry code: 238320

On November 16, 2023, at around 3:30 p.m., a subcontracted employee was painting a door jam on a three-story house when he fell 20 feet through an opened elevator shaft to the floor below. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Elevator shafts
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate