Incident date: 2018-06-08
NAICS industry code: 238120

The injured employee was installing the last two pieces of decking to the floor of a mezzanine being built within the warehouse. The employee pushed the decking back so that he would have room to cut it and fell through the exposed hole approximately 14 feet to the concrete floor below. He struck steel framing on the floor and broke his arm. He also suffered lacerations to his forehead.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate