Incident date: 2020-04-13
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was about to remove the stair tower so that he and other crew members could replace it with a new tower. He was at the stair landing between the bottom floor and the second floor. He stepped up the first stair tread. The angle clip that held the tread in place was rotted. The employee fell through the stairs to the ground, breaking his right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Stairs, steps, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate