Incident date: 2017-09-25
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was dismantling a scaffold. While walking across two 7' steel scaffold planks, the planks separated and the employee fell 18 feet through the gap to the concrete surface below. The employee sustained a fractured left clavicle, fractured arm and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate