Incident date: 2022-04-15
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was using a hoist to lift a piece of equipment from the first floor of the prechill room to the second floor through a section of grating on hinges in the floor about 3 ft. by 6 ft. After the piece of the equipment had been lifted through the hole, the employee fell through the open space onto the floor 12 ft. below and suffered multiple fractures.

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