Incident date: 2016-01-19
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was climbing a scaffold when the scaffold came apart.  The employee fell 12-15 feet to the ground resulting in a upper left thigh laceration and a compression fracture to the T10 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate