Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 561740

On February 27, 2025, at 7:25 AM, an employee was retrieving a box of personal protective equipment from a storage rack while on a ladder. They were descending the ladder when the ladder slipped and they fell 8 feet to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with facial fractures and a right wrist fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate