Incident date: 2024-12-10
NAICS industry code: 237310

An 18-foot-tall scaffold collapsed onto an employee, who was hit by concrete masonry unit blocks that had been sitting on the scaffold. The employee suffered a broken skull, right hip, and nose, as well as head lacerations and swelling in the right shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collapse, engulfment  building or structure
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate