Incident date: 2020-05-16
NAICS industry code: 238310

On May 15, 2020, employees were installing drywall sheets, and one employee had his weight on a stack of about 12 sheets piled up against wall studs, when one of the sheets broke. The rest came down on his right knee and broke his right tibia. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate