Incident date: 2022-11-16
NAICS industry code: 811121

An employee was installing overhead air supply lines when he stepped onto a 2x4 ceiling nailer of an office that was under construction. The employee fell eight feet through the ceiling and onto the floor, sustaining two lumbar vertebrae fractures and a rib fracture that punctured his lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate