Incident date: 2019-07-20
NAICS industry code: 541513

An employee was serving as a spotter for the adjustment of staging when several of the staging planks became dislodged and fell to the ground. One of the planks bounced far enough to strike the employee in the back. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Hernias due to traumatic incidents
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate