Incident date: 2020-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was inspecting rooms in a house under construction when he opened an elevator access door thinking it was a closet. He fell four stories down the elevator shaft to the cement floor, suffering leg and spinal fractures. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Elevator shafts
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate