Incident date: 2021-12-29
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was standing on the base of a mobile scaffold. His left arm was wrapped through the ladder's vertical retracting supports, which he was hitting with a hammer in an attempt to free the ladder. The ladder abruptly retracted downward and broke his arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate