Incident date: 2024-08-27
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee was unloading plywood from a telehandler onto the second story of a new construction residential townhouse. They stepped onto the stacked plywood and fell 22 feet onto construction material and the ground below. The employee sustained a fractured skull and jaw. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport powered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple regions of the head
severity: moderate