Incident date: 2017-07-07
NAICS industry code: 311111

An employee was working from a 6-foot step ladder to change an airline near a sterilizer. He was reaching when he lost his balance and fell, striking a pipe on the ground and fracturing his tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate