Incident date: 2017-09-13
NAICS industry code: 221115

An employee was climbing a permanent ladder inside a wind turbine. The employee was wearing a fall harness attached to a climb assist mechanism. The employee's foot became tangled and he slipped off the ladder falling 6 inches. The injured employee was hospitalized for a muscle strain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Strains
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate