Incident date: 2023-03-27
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was climbing down a 14-foot ladder after working from a scaffold in the boiler room when they fell to the floor, sustaining lacerations, fractured vertebrae, and a possible concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate