Incident date: 2022-03-04
NAICS industry code: 238110

On March 4, 2022, an employee was removing concrete wall forms from a poured concrete wall and stoop on a new residential construction project. While walking/working from the top of a concrete wall, the employee lowered a wall form to the ground and it caught the employee's clothing pulling the employee from the top of the wall to the dirt ground 8 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for facial injuries, abrasions, and a fractured left wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate