Incident date: 2016-12-08
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was walking on stilts to his working area. He was working in a computer room (raised floor) that was covered in tile squares. Someone had removed a carpeted tile and he fell between the false floor and carpeted sections of the floor, dislocating his left elbow and breaking his right wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
severity: moderate