Incident date: 2019-03-13
NAICS industry code: 811310

At about 12:30 on March 13, 2019, an employee was climbing a 6-foot ladder, reached the third or fourth rung, and opened a light fixture lens cover to replace the light bulb. The light fixture (and an 18-by-7-foot section of the T-bar ceiling) fell and knocked the employee off the ladder. He suffered a concussion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Concussions
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate