Incident date: 2017-07-28
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was tracing overhead conduit in a mechanical room. The room has HVAC ductwork that runs from the ceiling down to 2' x 2' louvers in the floor. As the employee was looking up at the conduit, he stepped backwards and fell through one of the louvers approximately 10 feet to a lower level, suffering a head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate