Incident date: 2024-12-07
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was disassembling a scaffold. He disconnected his yoyo from the front of the scaffold, lost his balance, and fell 15 feet to the ground along with the part of the scaffold they had lifted. The employee was hospitalized with a head laceration and three broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate