Incident date: 2024-07-05
NAICS industry code: 238990

The injured employee was on a team that was dismantling a scaffold. He was descending a scaffold ladder when the ladder bent backward and he fell. The employee struck a structural beam and then continued to fall to catwalk grating 36 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Part of body  unspecified
severity: moderate