Incident date: 2021-04-12
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was stripping concrete forms from a 10-foot step ladder. He lost his balance and fell 5 to 6 feet to the concrete floor below, landing on his feet and then his knees. He suffered injuries to both knees and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate