Incident date: 2020-07-10
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was in the process of exiting a scaffold when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 to 3.5 feet to the ground below. During the fall, he struck a scaffold bracket. The employee suffered bruised ribs and possible internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Trunk, unspecified
severity: moderate