Incident date: 2017-11-15
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was working inside an elevator shaft when the elevator button was pressed, causing the elevator to descend. He was trying to step out of the shaft when the elevator landed on his back, fracturing his vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate