Incident date: 2022-06-08
NAICS industry code: 238150

An employee was installing new windows from a supported scaffold at a two-story single-family  home when they fell approximately 20 feet from the second tier of the scaffold. The employee suffered seven broken ribs, a punctured lung, a lacerated kidney, and facial fractures, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate