Incident date: 2024-02-23
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was picking up scrap wood on the 27th floor and picked up a piece that was covering a hole. When the employee walked forward, he fell through the hole approximately 12 feet landing on the 26th floor. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate