Incident date: 2023-11-15
NAICS industry code: 532412

An employee was helping a crew erect scaffolding. As he applied pressure to a component, it gave way and causing the employee to fall from the scaffold to the ground. The employee sustained a dislocated elbow that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Dislocation of joints
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate