Incident date: 2024-01-02
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was working on a swing scaffold, preparing to install terracotta tile on the exterior of a building. Terracotta tiles that had been previously installed on the building detached and fell striking the employee in the head. The employee suffered lacerations to the head, a head injury, bleeding around the brain, and neck and back injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Tiles  ceramic, stone, glass
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate