Incident date: 2019-02-12
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was climbing a straight ladder that was secured to a boiler.  On the third or fourth step of the ladder, the employee's foot slipped causing him to fall backwards and hit a fire extinguisher that was on the wall before falling to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized due to an injury to his twelfth vertebrae.

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