Incident date: 2023-01-27
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was installing oriented strand board (OSB) along the outer edge of a platform. He left to replace the battery in his cordless saw. When he returned, he stepped onto a piece of OSB and fell approximately 5 feet onto an exposed stair stringer. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae in the neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate