Incident date: 2020-02-27
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was installing gutters on a newly constructed residential dwelling. The employee was climbing a portable extension ladder to install a downspout over the garage and fell approximately 10 feet head-first onto the concrete driveway. The employee sustained a skull fracture, swelling of the brain, eight broken ribs and a collapsed lung and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate