Incident date: 2020-09-16
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was working from a perry style scaffold that was 3 feet off the ground when he stepped backward off the scaffold and fell to the ground. He broke his right tibia, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate