Incident date: 2023-10-24
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee had climbed a ladder to adjust brackets that were securing the boot of a down spout to a concrete portable plant. The ladder shifted and slid out from under the employee, causing the employee to fall approximately 6 to 8 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a compression fracture to his L1 vertebra.

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