Incident date: 2022-12-13
NAICS industry code: 236210

While on a 5-foot high bakers scaffold, an employee was using a pneumatic staple gun to secure new insulation to the bottom of existing roof joists. He fell off the scaffold and impacted the plywood subfloor. The employee sustained a fractured left wrist, fractured ribs on the left side, a bloody nose, and bruising on the left side of the face.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate