Incident date: 2020-07-26
NAICS industry code: 531311

On July 26, 2020, an employee received a call from a tenant that the elevator was not working at their rental house. The employee drove to the three-story rental house to fix the issue. While trying to reset the elevator, the employee lost her balance and fell about 30 feet through the sheet rock to the first floor of the elevator shaft. The employee was hospitalized with a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate