Incident date: 2020-06-24
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was performing drywall finishing work while on a scaffold. The scaffold's caster wheel fell into a floor opening causing the scaffold to tip over. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate