Incident date: 2022-02-11
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was on a ladder inside a house attaching strapping to the exterior door frame. The employee stepped on a guard rail and the rail came loose causing the employee to fall 11 feet from the ladder out of the opening and land in a frozen snow bank. The employee struck his head on the frozen ground and suffered head trauma and fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate