Incident date: 2018-10-31
NAICS industry code: 331110

An employee was changing out vacuum switches on the third level in an electrical room. The employee fell through the space created by the removal of the switches, landing 7.5 feet below and suffering fractured neck vertebrae and a lacerated scalp.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate