Incident date: 2017-06-26
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was on an extension ladder (approximately 8 feet up) testing a phone port on the ceiling when the ladder slipped out from under him and he fell to the ground, breaking his vertebrae and crushing a disc in his lower back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate