Incident date: 2023-12-27
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was on the second floor of a building kneeling over a void space. As they fired a powder actuator to shoot a rivet into a metal track, they lost balance and fell through the space, resulting in fractures to the ribs and left collar bone as well as brain hemorrhaging. The employee was hospitalized. Fall protection was not worn at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Structures and surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate