Incident date: 2024-04-03
NAICS industry code: 324121

An employee entered into an aerial lift with another worker in order to perform capital form work for an overpass bridge. The employee stepped out of the aerial lift basket and onto the wooden scaffold platform. The worker fell through the platform's walking surface and onto the ground approximately 20 feet below. The employee sustained broken vertebrae and multiple contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate