Incident date: 2017-04-20
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was gathering materials to construct concrete formwork. The employee picked up a sheet of plywood not realizing it was covering an existing floor hole. As a result, the employee stepped into the floor hole and fell approximately 12 feet to the next lower level, suffering wrist and neck injuries that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate