Incident date: 2016-12-04
NAICS industry code: 452910

An employee on a ladder was reaching to remove some clothes from the back of a rack while holding on to a horizontal pipe (used to hang clothes) near the front of the rack. The horizontal pipe disengaged from the rack uprights and fell, causing the employee to lose her balance and fall to the ground. She fractured her left ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate