Incident date: 2015-08-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was standing on a 5' X 10' board, which was laying on jersey barriers so that the employee could screw other pieces of wood  to the board at a downward angle. The employee stepped off the edge and fell 4 feet, injuring the left knee and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-improvised staging
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate