Incident date: 2025-08-21
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was climbing the rungs of a baker scaffold. When he was about 3 feet off the ground, he fell backward from the scaffold. His back struck a short wall as he fell. He was hospitalized, having suffered three broken ribs and a punctured left lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Multiple internal chest locations
severity: moderate