Incident date: 2025-05-05
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was installing HVAC equipment in a customer's attic when he knelt down on a support beam that had a screw sticking up out of it. The employee sustained a puncture to the knee that began swelling and he was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Stepped or knelt on object
code_source: title: Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate