Incident date: 2019-02-21
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was on an 8-foot stepladder when one of the spreader bars broke causing the ladder to twist and turn throwing the employee off the ladder. The employee suffered a broken right arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate