Incident date: 2020-09-11
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was climbing an outside mounted ladder to access the roof on a commercial property. The ladder detached from the building and the employee fell to the ground, suffering leg and foot injuries. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate