Incident date: 2015-07-07
NAICS industry code: 561311

A temporary employee's nail bag caught on the brick layer scaffold he was working from causing him to lose balance and fall approximately twelve feet to the ground below fracturing his hip. The employee was admitted to the hospital for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate