Incident date: 2023-11-16
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was painting an interior lobby ceiling from a scaffold. As they were descending the scaffold, they slipped and fell approximately 12 feet to the floor below, resulting in a fractured vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate