Incident date: 2021-02-05
NAICS industry code: 336212

Four employees were attempting to modify an approximately 10 ft. high by 10 ft. long non-assembly single piece metal scaffold system on wheels and lay it on its side in order to replace 2 x 8 wooden platforms. The scaffold kicked out while the employees were tipping it over and the scaffold fell  onto an employee's left leg resulting in a compound fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate