Incident date: 2016-01-27
NAICS industry code: 23611

An employee was installing snap ties on the outside of a three-story house's masonry wall when his coworker on an aerial lift was coming down and knocked the employee off the scaffold platform. The employee fell 6 feet to the ground, dislocating his shoulder and fracturing his proximal humerus. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
severity: moderate