Incident date: 2018-08-08
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was trying to look at electrical devices that were on a wall behind vertically stacked drywall when the drywall fell towards him, striking and breaking his right ankle. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Wallboard, drywall, sheetrock
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate