Incident date: 2015-04-01
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee climbed onto a scaffold to place his tools on the wall. He reached a section on the scaffolding where he needed to stretch to reach and removed the guarding at the end frame. When he went back to work in the area, he fell through the unguarded section, breaking his knee caps.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate