Incident date: 2016-10-08
NAICS industry code: 238150

An employee on a ladder was operating a battery-powered screw gun while sliding jam pieces of a door when a gust of wind blew the door open, thus knocking down the ladder and employee to the ground. He was hospitalized with broken ribs and multiple contusions to his left side.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate