Incident date: 2015-11-11
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was performing masonry work from a scaffold. He was changing his work elevation on the scaffold, which required him to remove planking on the current elevation and put it on the next elevation.  During the process, he fell approximately 12 feet, fracturing his ribs and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate