Incident date: 2016-06-02
NAICS industry code: 623990

On June 2, 2016, at 1:45 p.m., an employee fell 4.7 feet from an outside stairway while attempting to remove a black snake from the outside lip/ledge of the stairway. He broke five ribs and injured his spleen, requiring hospitalization.

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