Incident date: 2021-03-02
NAICS industry code: 238310

Two employees were hanging an elevator shaft while standing on plywood boards. One board shifted, causing the two employees to fall 31 feet from the third floor to the ground floor. One employee was hospitalized for a lower back fracture and the second employee was hospitalized for a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: low