Incident date: 2020-06-29
NAICS industry code: 238140

Employees were working from a non-stop scaffold. The scaffold's planks had moved; an employee was walking across the planks to correct them when he fell to the ground about 16-18 feet below. He suffered an upper back fracture and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate