Incident date: 2021-11-05
NAICS industry code: 561910

An employee climbed a rolling platform ladder and took down a plastic tube from a surge tank. As the employee was walking down the ladder with the tube, the employee fell off the bottom step and onto his left hip, where he kept his radio unit. The employee suffered a fractured left femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate