Incident date: 2022-06-17
NAICS industry code: 238120

Employees were working on a three-story steel/concrete staircase, welding and bolting up, doing the metal decking. An employee was picking up a metal sheet when he slipped and fell from the middle staircase landing onto the landing below, a distance of approximately 12 feet. The employee sustained a back fracture and a head fracture. The employee was wearing a harness, but it was not connected at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate