Incident date: 2019-06-07
NAICS industry code: 238350

On June 7, 2019, an employee was installing wood trim on the ceiling of a new house from a baker's scaffold. The scaffold came apart and the employee fell 7 feet to the ground. He sustained a broken left wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s) and elbow(s)
severity: moderate