Incident date: 2023-07-10
NAICS industry code: 333415

On July 10, 2023, an employee was conducting a safety walkthrough at a construction site when he noticed a fan was lying horizontally. When he picked it up to move it, he fell through a 30-inch wide opening and landed 25 feet below on the floor of a steam vault resulting in broken ribs, a broken spine, and swollen legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate