Incident date: 2018-04-25
NAICS industry code: 238990

While covering vent systems with plastic, an employee stepped onto a hole cover for a vent shaft and the cover gave way. The employee then fell from the 16th floor to the 5th floor in the vent shaft, fracturing both ankles and three vertebrae and suffering several lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Structural elements, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate