Incident date: 2022-09-09
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was working from the top of a third-story subfloor. While trying to retrieve an airline hose for a pneumatic nail gun, the employee fell through the guardrail system to the ground level two stories below. The employee suffered a broken left knee and an injury to the right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate