Incident date: 2015-01-29
NAICS industry code: 238140

A scaffold board was removed to load mortar onto the scaffold. As the scaffold board was placed back into position, an adjacent scaffold board fell from the third tier, striking an employee in the head. The injured employee was on the ground loading custom bricks into a bucket.  He was taken to the hospital and admitted.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate