Incident date: 2022-10-12
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working on the top of a cooler ceiling. After cutting an opening in a 4-inch-thick insulated metal panel so that stairs could be installed, the employee fell through the opening, landed on the ground, and suffered a dislocated hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate