Incident date: 2019-04-16
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was handing masonry blocks to another employee on a scaffold when the employee walked backwards off the scaffold and fell approximately 5 feet onto a concrete floor. The employee suffered a broken right arm, requiring surgery, and a fractured right hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate