Incident date: 2018-08-06
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was climbing a 15-foot fixed ladder to access a roof when the employee slipped off the ladder and fell 8 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate