Incident date: 2020-11-19
NAICS industry code: 541990

An employee was walking down a hallway at a jobsite when he encountered a set of staircases and realized it was a dead-end. He went to turn around but lost his footing and fell down the staircase resulting in injured ribs and a punctured lung. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate