Incident date: 2015-08-25
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was installing a chicken wire catch all to a sidewalk shed. The employee was standing on the sidewalk shed wall and fell approximately 16 feet onto an iron fence and the concrete ground below.  He sustained broken ribs, a broken jaw and lacerated the liver.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Structures, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate