Incident date: 2022-05-16
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was working from a swing stage scaffold that was positioned 28 feet high on a building. A crane was lifting and moving porta-johns. The crane struck the swing stage causing it to collapse. The employee's left elbow caught on a metal part of the scaffold causing a laceration that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-suspended staging
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate