Incident date: 2021-04-23
NAICS industry code: 238220

Two employees were changing air filters on top of a roof. They had accessed the roof by way of a scissor lift. As they started to descend down, the scissor lifts' wheel rolled into the dirt and the lift fell over. The employees fell about 20 feet to the ground. One employee was hospitalized with an injury to the pelvic region.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Pelvic region, unspecified
severity: moderate