Incident date: 2022-01-04
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was climbing down into a vault when they grabbed onto some doors on the vault and the doors gave way, causing the employee to fall at least 20 feet to the bottom of the vault, which had capped rebar on it. The employee suffered broken ribs and a broken sternum.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Confined spaces, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate