Incident date: 2019-02-26
NAICS industry code: 238170

An employee was on an extension ladder, using a metal crowbar to remove shingles from near a second-story window on an outside detached garage. The ladder slipped from under him and he fell, landing on the black asphalt driveway in front of the garage. He suffered an injury to his back and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate