Incident date: 2025-08-18
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was on the floor picking up some tools/materials from under a scaffold. A 4x4 piece of plywood was thrown from the scaffold and struck the employee on the head. The employee sustained two broken neck vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Sheets, panels  wood, plywood, MDF
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate