Incident date: 2021-06-15
NAICS industry code: 238220

On June 14, 2021, an employee was setting up a lasering system at a newly constructed commercial building. While anchoring or aligning a frame over a 20-foot by 22-foot floor opening, the employee fell through, landing 10-12 feet below. The employee suffered a cracked vertebra and was hospitalized.

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: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate