Incident date: 2020-05-13
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was laying brick while working on a scaffold. The employee tripped and fell 20 feet from the scaffold to the ground below. The employee sustained a broken femur and tissue damage to the leg, as well as an injury to the rotator cuff, and cuts and scrapes.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate