Incident date: 2018-11-05
NAICS industry code: 541410

On November 5, 2018, a painter was cutting in the paint from a wall to a ceiling, working from a scaffold 6 feet high. The employee fell from the scaffold, landing on the concrete floor below and suffering fractures to both wrists and a fractured skull. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate