Incident date: 2019-03-15
NAICS industry code: 322121

An employee was standing on a ladder trying to unclog a bark hopper using a high-pressure water hose when he fell from the third step (about 3 feet), then rolled over the ledge (about 3 feet) and onto a bark pile on a truck ramp. He was hospitalized with a fractured T-12 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate