Incident date: 2020-08-13
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was standing on stairs that were being held by welds and chain falls. The welds broke and the employee fell approximately 15 feet onto the concrete floor. The stairs fell on top of him. He was hospitalized with multiple fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate