Incident date: 2021-07-09
NAICS industry code: 238320

The injured employee was descending a fixed ladder in the base cone of a spheroidal design water tower. Another employee above him was lowering a plastic, 5-gallon bucket full of tools with a rope. The handle on the bucket broke and the bucket and its contents fell on the injured employee causing him to let go of the ladder and fall approximately 10-12 feet to the lower level. The injured employee sustained fractured vertebrae, a concussion, and lacerations to the face and head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate