Incident date: 2021-05-10
NAICS industry code: 531311

An employee was using a chain hoist to lift a mattress from a lower floor. The employee fell through a hole in the floor he was working on and impacted a concrete floor that was 18 feet below. The employee sustained a broken wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate