Incident date: 2020-05-15
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was hydraulic hand-sawing on a concrete wall when the diamond-tipped blade made contact with a wood beam. The saw handle kicked back and knocked the employee off a 4-foot baker's scaffold. The employee sustained a skull fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate