Incident date: 2019-03-25
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was on the second level of an aircraft maintenance platform installing tags on equipment. The employee stepped on a hole cover and it gave way, allowing the employee to fall 9 feet to the concrete floor. The employee sustained head trauma, five fractured ribs, and a fractured L5 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate