Incident date: 2017-05-11
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was working on the second level of a scaffold approximately eight feet high. The employee was reaching up to adjust the toe board for the level above when he slipped and fell through the mid-rail to the ground below. The employee suffered a left shoulder and elbow injury and a laceration above the left eye requiring stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Eye(s)
severity: moderate