Incident date: 2025-01-03
NAICS industry code: 238170

An employee was doing metal siding work. They fell from a 9-foot tall platform on the upper level of a garage to the concrete sidewalk and were hospitalized with fractures of their T5 and T6 vertebrae. Fall protection was not in place at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  thoracic region
severity: moderate