Incident date: 2020-01-28
NAICS industry code: 238210

After installing light fixtures in a room of a new 3-story house, an employee opened the door to an elevator shaft thinking it was another room and fell down approximately 36 feet to the ground floor. He suffered fractures to both legs, a vertebra, and an arm and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Elevator shafts
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate