Incident date: 2023-06-17
NAICS industry code: 424510

An employee was waiting for the elevator to get to the floor that he worked on. The employee went to step through the elevator door, but the elevator lift was not there, causing him to fall 20 feet to the basement below. The employee sustained fractures in both legs, the right heel, and lower vertebrae. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Elevator shafts
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate