Incident date: 2017-08-24
NAICS industry code: 336611

While standing on a pole scaffold platform and cleaning a potable water tank, an employee fell approximately 48 inches from the scaffold platform to a lower platform. The employee was hospitalized with head trauma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate