Incident date: 2017-11-24
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was installing siding on a house's exterior wall while standing on an 8-foot A-frame ladder. He was attempting to step onto another 8-foot A-frame ladder when one of the ladders fell. He then fell 6 feet to the ground and hit his head on the ladder's leg. He was hospitalized with a laceration and fracture to the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate