Incident date: 2016-02-18
NAICS industry code: 336992

An employee was working on a 12-foot A-frame ladder, attempting to thread a piece of pipe. While pushing the pipe to align it, he was thrown off balance and fell forward approximately 4 feet (from the 4th or 5th rung) to the concrete floor, suffering a head laceration, two broken wrists, dental trauma, and a bruised knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate