Incident date: 2020-01-14
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was on a scaffold tearing down a pool cage and knocking down a beam with a hammer when the entire sidewall gave way and knocked the employee from the scaffold onto the paved deck below. The employee subsequently fell into an empty pool, suffering a broken rib and broken jaw.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate