Incident date: 2016-11-21
NAICS industry code: 561790

An employee was removing a scaffold around a chimney when wind caught the scaffold plank, causing the employee to fall 16 to 18 feet to the ground below.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate