Incident date: 2018-12-27
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working from a scaffold to remove an HVAC unit from a ceiling. Part of the unit fell out and struck the scaffolding, causing the employee to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a cut to the back of the head and a back injury requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate