Incident date: 2017-07-31
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was painting the peak in the front of a house from an extension ladder. The ladder slid out and hit the ground. The employee fell from the ladder and suffered broken vertebrae and paralysis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate