Incident date: 2023-01-05
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was preparing to climb an 8-foot scaffold ladder to install a 6-inch piping blind flange. As the employee climbed to the fourth rung of the ladder, he struck the top of his hardhat on an overhead pipe. The employee fell from the scaffold ladder approximately 4-5 feet before landing on his hip and striking his head on the ground. He sustained spine and neck injuries that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Neck and back
severity: moderate