Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 238140

Two employees were installing mesh wire from the fifth level of a scaffold. The planks tilted to one side of the scaffold and the employees fell 40 feet. They were hospitalized with a broken left arm and broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: low