Incident date: 2018-02-16
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was receiving scaffold materials up to the 21st floor via an engineered opening in the scaffold flooring. The employee fell approximately 14 feet through a gap in the scaffold flooring. The employee struck his head in the fall and was hospitalized. The employee was not tied off at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Existing floor opening
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate