Incident date: 2016-09-13
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was standing on a 3-foot scaffold platform, screwing sheetrock into the metal studs when he lost his footing and fell off the scaffold. He fell through the open door onto sheetrock that was on the other side. He caught the sheetrock corner on his right side, breaking two ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate