Incident date: 2017-01-29
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was erecting the second tier of a masonry scaffold when he fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below breaking the L1, L4 and L5 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate