Incident date: 2024-11-20
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was evaluating an apartment complex for a fire suppression system and leaned on a job-made temporary handrail at the second-story landing. The handrail gave way and the employee fell 11 feet to the floor below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple back fractures including the L1 and T12 vertebrae and a bruised spinal cord.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  multiple regions
severity: moderate