Incident date: 2019-12-17
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was in an uninsulated attic installing a thermostat wire. While he was walking on a truss chord, the lumber broke and he fell through the ceiling to the concrete floor below. He suffered a broken leg and blunt force trauma, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Roof trusses, joists
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate