Incident date: 2019-07-12
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee working as a framer was putting hardware on the bottom of an exterior wall on the right side of the house. He was standing on the completed deck floor of the second story when he fell to the dirt ground. The employee sustained a spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis from the chest down.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Porches, balconies, decks, patios
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate