Incident date: 2025-01-16
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was on a scaffold to paint an upper mezzanine. While exiting the scaffold, the employee fell approximately 10 feet to the floor. The employee sustained paralysis from the chest down, no feeling in their legs, a traumatic brain injury, fractures to their T5 through T8 vertebrae, and memory loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Multiple types of injuries to the brain, spinal cord
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate