Incident date: 2024-10-23
NAICS industry code: 238210

On October 23, 2024, at approximately 8:35 AM, an employee was dropping off a transfer switch for a generator install and took a photo for proof of delivery. He took a step back and fell approximately 10 feet through an open hole to the concrete basement floor of a new construction house. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their vertebrae, ribs, and sternum.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate