Incident date: 2021-07-22
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was walking on the main wooden beam inside the attic of a newly built one-story house. When he stepped onto the cross member beam, it gave way. He lost his balance, hit an extension ladder, and fell 10 feet to the concrete floor in the garage. He suffered a broken tailbone and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Girders, beams, structural steel
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Coccygeal region
severity: moderate