Incident date: 2018-02-23
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was 5-6 steps up a 12' orchard-style ladder when the ladder shifted on a patch of black ice. The employee lost balance and fell, becoming entangled in the ladder, and struck his head against the pavement during the fall resulting in a skull fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate