Incident date: 2020-05-08
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was working on a scaffold 8 feet high and scooting from one area to another when one side of the scaffold fell into a drainage hole. The scaffold then began to tip over, and the employee jumped out of the scaffold. Upon landing on the ground, the employee fractured his left ankle, right tibia, and right fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate