Incident date: 2020-10-30
NAICS industry code: 238130

An employee cut a piece of exterior siding and climbed a stepladder onto the scaffold platform to install the siding. The employee fell 8 feet from the scaffold onto the ground and sustained fractured ribs, two cervical fractures, and a brain bleed.

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 other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head, neck, and trunk
severity: moderate