Incident date: 2019-04-03
NAICS industry code: 611110

An employee was unplugging heat tape used in an exterior drain spout from an electrical box. The box was positioned so that the employee had stand on a grate to access it; the grate gave way and the employee fell into the window well about 90 inches, suffering broken ribs and four broken vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Grates and drains in floor surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate