Incident date: 2020-11-24
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was using an extension ladder to descend from a roof. The ladder slipped on the wet asphalt, and the employee fell about 10 feet to the ground on top of the ladder. The employee suffered a broken nose; fractures to an eye orbit, the sternum, and a knee; a head contusion; and brain bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate