Incident date: 2023-03-02
NAICS industry code: 238130

On March 2, 2023, an employee was installing sheetrock/drywall in the interior of a building while working from a rolling scaffold. The employee fell off the scaffold approximately 6 feet to the concrete ground below, resulting in fractures to both hands and abrasions on the forehead and nose. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate