Incident date: 2018-09-05
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was moving a lift into another room and had closed the room door when a sheet metal damper installed in the wall above the door fell from the ceiling and hit the employee's back, fracturing the C5 vertebra and compressing other vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Structural elements, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate