Incident date: 2025-05-30
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was working to hang/support a pipe running vertically through a ceiling for a plumbing vent. A section of plywood had been laid perpendicularly across several ceiling joists to provide access to the work area. The employee was positioning himself to work a channel strut into place to support the pipe when he fell 9 feet from the ceiling trusses to the concrete floor. He sustained fractures to lumbar vertebrae and was hospitalized. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Trusses, girders, beams structurally attached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate