Incident date: 2017-12-06
NAICS industry code: 238220

On December 6, 2017, at approximately 9:15 a.m., an employee was climbing a 12-foot step ladder to attach a retractable lanyard to a structural member when the employee fell backward from the fourth rung. The employee's head struck the concrete floor, and the employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture, brain bleed, and abrasions to the lower left calf and ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate