Incident date: 2021-05-26
NAICS industry code: 541712

An employee was moving across a first floor ceiling. The employee stepped on a ceiling joist, which gave way; the employee fell to the concrete floor about 10 feet below and suffered a broken right hand and broken right arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate