Incident date: 2016-07-28
NAICS industry code: 238310

On or about July 28, 2016, at 7:00 a.m., an employee was on the second landing of a scaffold on the side of a building, preparing a chalk line to put a V-groove in a column. When he stood up, he became dizzy and fainted. He fell forward toward the building and onto a brick ledge, fracturing several vertebrae, his left scapula, and several left- and right-side ribs. He was hospitalized.

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