Incident date: 2017-05-02
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was standing on a mobile scaffold about 3 or 4 feet above the floor when the platform became partially unsecured and tilted. The employee lost his balance and fell into a stand. He was hospitalized with a puncture wound and possible internal injuries in the sternum/chest area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate