Incident date: 2021-03-09
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was performing brick-laying work from a scaffold. As the employee walked on the scaffold, the wood board overturned, causing the employee to fall 20 feet to the ground and sustain contusions to their head, arms and legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate