Incident date: 2016-02-03
NAICS industry code: 236220

The employee was working on an elevated platform (scaffolding) removing form boards from a new concrete structure.  The employee was tied off to a form board that had been taken apart by mistake.  The form board fell 15'-20' to the ground pulling the employee to the ground with it. The employee suffered a fractured leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate