Incident date: 2025-07-07
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was fixing and replacing portions of the chimney on a residential (townhouse) building. The employee was setting up scaffolding when they fell off the scaffold, struck the roof/gutter, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with three fractures in his neck, three fractures in his back, and a fractured left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate