Incident date: 2017-11-10
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was on a ladder cleaning a kitchen exhaust duct and fan when the ladder slipped from under him as he was descending. He fell 12 to 15 feet to the asphalt ground, fracturing vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate