Incident date: 2016-06-05
NAICS industry code: 238310

On 6/5/16, at approximately 12:15 p.m., an employee was climbing onto a mobile scaffold to install drywall mud. The employee was ascending an add-on scaffold ladder designed for safe scaffold access when his foot was caught on the second rung. He then fell less than 4 feet, fracturing three vertebrae in his neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate