Incident date: 2016-08-23
NAICS industry code: 519120

An employee was stacking boxes of documents on a pallet when he fell 16 feet through an opening in an adjacent guardrail to the concrete floor below. He fractured his right patella, left elbow, left wrist and humerus, facial bones, and left femur. He also suffered head lacerations.

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