Incident date: 2020-07-15
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was pulling wire on the ceiling of a structure under construction. The employee fell through an opening in the ceiling, landing on the concrete floor about 9 feet below and suffering a broken lower-back vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate