Incident date: 2023-03-25
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was walking up a steel staircase to check wiring in the electrical room. The staircase had a top platform with a grate that was sitting across the beams of the platform. The grate had shifted and as the employee stepped on it, it gave way, causing him to fall approximately 3 feet to the ground below. The grate landed on the employee and he was hospitalized for four transverse process fractures in the lower spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate