Incident date: 2016-06-14
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee and a coworker were applying stucco from a scaffold to the exterior of a building. When the employee and his coworker stepped off the scaffold onto a canopy awning, the canopy came off, causing them to fall. The employee suffered a broken left ankle and tailbone, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Structural elements, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate