Incident date: 2018-10-12
NAICS industry code: 238170

An employee was hanging plywood to the exterior of an apartment building. The employee was straddling a guardrail and was leaning past it when it swung outwards and the employee fell approximately 11 feet out of a wall opening onto a concrete patio. The employee was wearing a harness and a lifeline, but it failed to arrest his fall. Both of the employee's knees were fractured and his chin and right hand were lacerated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Other structural elements, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate