Incident date: 2020-08-23
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was on the working platform of a scaffold at a height of approximately 9 feet doing welding operations. During an alarm, the employee fell from the scaffold's ladder to the ground, resulting in a compound fracture to the lower left leg requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate