Incident date: 2025-05-27
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was descending the side of a scaffold when a rail detached from the scaffold and the employee fell 38 feet to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis, fractured lumbar vertebra(e), and lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate