Incident date: 2022-11-11
NAICS industry code: 441110

An employee was setting up to paint. When stepping onto the edge of the scaffolding from the 2nd or 3rd step of a ladder, the ladder shifted, causing the employee to fall about 4 feet. He landed on his side on the top stair and was hospitalized for three fractured ribs and a possible bruised spleen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate