Incident date: 2020-08-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working on top of an elevator car removing counterweights. The elevator car was being lowered when the coffing hoist holding it up snapped and the elevator car and the employee fell from the 10th floor to the basement. The employee sustained broken bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate