Incident date: 2017-09-13
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was at the top of a fixed ladder mounted on the interior of a 10-foot deep trench box. It was raining and the employee's feet and the ladder were wet. The employee slipped off the ladder and fell onto his back on the plywood flooring of the excavation, sustaining a back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate