Incident date: 2022-11-23
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was running wires in an attic above the second floor of a house. The employee fell through sheet rock between two joists, landed on a staircase below, and suffered a broken right femur and right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate