Incident date: 2020-09-18
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was working on the third tier of a four-tier scaffold. The employee used a cross brace to gain more height. The cross brace broke and the employee fell approximately 16 feet to the ground below resulting in hospitalization for back and upper right shoulder injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and back
severity: moderate