Incident date: 2017-07-14
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was installing a railing on the third-story breezeway of a new apartment construction when he fell approximately 20 feet to the ground below and was hospitalized with multiple injuries. There was no guardrail and fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Porches, balconies, decks, patios
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate