Incident date: 2020-08-03
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was climbing a portable extension ladder to get onto a scaffold platform. The ladder fell away, and he fell to the floor about 11 feet below and suffered broken vertebrae.

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