Incident date: 2019-01-28
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was working from a scaffold chiseling mortar. As the employee set his tools down onto the walk boards between two outriggers, the walk boards gave way and the employee fell feet first to the ground below. The employee suffered a broken ankle and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate