Incident date: 2023-04-04
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was working on a hot water heater located in the attic of a new industrial building. The employee descended the attic on a fold-down ladder when he fell approximately 9 feet to the cement floor, resulting in a fractured L1 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate