Incident date: 2020-05-12
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was working on a painter's scaffold, 4.5 feet off the floor, demolishing a wall made of steel and plaster. A wall part shifted and knocked him off the scaffold to the floor. He suffered fractures to a tibia and a small bone in the ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate