Incident date: 2020-10-12
NAICS industry code: 238140

While working on the top level of scaffolding an employee tripped and fell through the side guard rails to the concrete ground approximately 18 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left femur and a cut above the left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate