Incident date: 2018-09-18
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was climbing a ladder up a scaffold that he was erecting. He was carrying a section of the scaffold in his hand when the section became caught on the scaffold, causing him to lose his balance and fall approximately 8 feet. He suffered a cerebral injury, bruising, internal bleeding, loss of feeling in his legs, and paralysis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate