Incident date: 2022-07-25
NAICS industry code: 238130

Two employees were working from a scaffold at a residential home, installing a 12-to-14-foot beam at a height of about 16 feet. The beam slipped and knocked the employees off the scaffold, causing them to land on a concrete slab below. One employee sustained a sprained ankle and multiple broken ribs but was not hospitalized. The other employee was hospitalized for a skull fracture, brain swelling, as well as a fractured right forearm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate