Incident date: 2025-05-08
NAICS industry code: 238310

At about 9:45 a.m. on May 8, 2025, an employee was standing on an aluminum plank to tape ceiling drywall in a stairwell leading to a second-floor loft in a garage. The plank collapsed, he fell to the steps below, and then tumbled to the bottom of the steps. He suffered cuts and a fracture to his right leg and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Improvised scaffolds or staging
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate