Incident date: 2024-09-18
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was climbing down a hydro scaffolding tower to retrieve batteries when he fell approximately 10 feet onto the A-frame outrigger of the scaffold, resulting in three fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate