Incident date: 2015-01-14
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee, in the process of dismantling a scaffold, climbed the scaffold ladder to approximately 25 feet and stepped off onto a pipe header.  Once on the pipe header, the employee slipped off and fell 25 feet to the ground below where he suffered a right arm compound fracture, a right elbow dislocation, and a fractured pelvis.  A yo-yo tie off was available that the employee was not using. The incident occurred at the 100 rack at the enterprise construction site.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate