Incident date: 2025-02-06
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee fell approximately 30 feet from a climbing scaffold and sustained two puncture wounds to the right cheek and had difficulty breathing. He also had a hematoma to the right chest and sustained a hemothorax. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Chest  unspecified
severity: moderate