Incident date: 2016-05-01
NAICS industry code: 238990

Two employees were installing siding on a residential home from a wooden pole scaffold equipped with a metal panel platform. The scaffold collapsed. Both employees were hospitalized. One employee suffered a fractured forearm. The second employee suffered a severe spinal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: low