Incident date: 2021-06-14
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee removed a piece of plywood to lay down some pipe, then moved to lean the plywood against a wall. The employee fell through a 3-foot by 4-foot hole that had been concealed under the plywood, landing 8 feet below in a crawlspace. The employee suffered a hip injury and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate