Incident date: 2018-07-26
NAICS industry code: 424910

An employee was working from a step ladder to repair a hole on a shipping container. While climbing down the 8-foot step ladder to retrieve a new battery for the grinder, the ladder and the employee fell to the ground below. The employee sustained a concussion and fracture of the spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate