Incident date: 2017-03-15
NAICS industry code: 452990

On March 15, 2017, an employee was on a freight elevator when the chain broke and the elevator collapsed. The employee sustained broken lumbar vertebrae requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate