Incident date: 2025-02-03
NAICS industry code: 238140

Employees were climbing a scaffold when a climbing hook missed its hold and the scaffold collapsed. The employees fell to the concrete floor. One employee sustained bruises and was not hospitalized. Another employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate