Incident date: 2018-05-12
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was installing painter's tape around a window while standing about 12 feet up on a 24-foot extension ladder. After he finished the installation, he was descending when he slipped and fell about 8 feet onto the sandy ground below, resulting in a micro-fissure fracture on his L-2 vertebra. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate