Incident date: 2019-07-01
NAICS industry code: 238140

A lift was being used to place a stack of ten scaffold planks on an erected scaffold. Several planks fell off the lift and hit an employee, pinning the employee's leg between the planks and construction equipment. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Building materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate