Incident date: 2023-06-13
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was using a 60-foot ladder to access the fourth floor of a building in order to paint the balcony. The employee was holding onto the handrail while painting it when the handrail brackets broke, causing him to fall approximately 30 feet to the ground and land on top of air conditioning units. The employee suffered severe lacerations on the face and fractures to the cheekbones and eye bones. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate