Incident date: 2023-05-17
NAICS industry code: 238140

On May 17, 2023, an employee was carrying two bottles of water up a scaffolding ladder when he slipped and fell approximately 12 feet to the dirt ground. The employee suffered a back injury that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate