Incident date: 2022-10-03
NAICS industry code: 561710

On October 3, 2022, at approximately 12:30 p.m., an employee was using a backpack sprayer to spray the attic of a customer's home when he stepped off the decking and fell through the ceiling to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate