Incident date: 2015-05-19
NAICS industry code: 333415

Two employees were moving a hijack to the fourth floor when the stairway gave way/broke, causing the employees and the equipment to fall. They were between the third and fourth floors when it snapped. The injured employee landed on the second floor landing or a little bit below. The second employee was not injured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate