Incident date: 2018-04-11
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was standing on planking located on the top buck of a two-end frame, tubular-welded frame scaffold when one of the scaffold planks broke, causing the employee to fall 10 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a fractured hip and two fractured ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate