Incident date: 2022-06-24
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was climbing a scaffold. When he grabbed two guardrails at the end of the scaffold, they collapsed and he fell to the ground 12 feet 6 inches below. His left elbow and both wrists were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
severity: moderate