Incident date: 2017-01-24
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was assisting another worker with transporting bricks to complete the job. The employee was climbing down from the scaffold when he slipped on one of the railings and fell approximately six feet striking another piece of the scaffold during the fall. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate