Incident date: 2016-12-28
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was moving a pressure washer from one section of scaffolding to another section when the weight of the pressure washer on the end of the scaffold caused it to tip over. The employee fell to the ground and fractured his vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate