Incident date: 2015-03-23
NAICS industry code: 236220

The injured employee was removing a section of a protective walkway. He was using a stepladder to climb beside the walkway to remove a sheet of plywood. He stepped from the stepladder to the top of the protective walkway. The walkway collapsed to the ground with the employee on top. He broke his left femur and dislocated his knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
severity: moderate