Incident date: 2023-01-12
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was diagnosing HVAC issues at a home when they fell approximately 15 feet through a sheetrock ceiling, landing on the ground floor of the home. The employee sustained a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ceilings
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate