Incident date: 2017-01-26
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee was ascending a scaffold ladder when his foot got caught in a rung and he fell backwards. A co-worker came to his aid and freed him. While descending the remaining scaffold he slipped and fell approximately four feet to the pavement. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate