Incident date: 2022-05-03
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was cutting the bottom of metal duct work with a reciprocating saw while on the sixth rung of a 10-foot step ladder. The saw blade snapped and the employee started to fall. He grabbed the ladder, but his momentum carried him and the ladder over and onto the floor. He fell a distance of 68 inches onto the tile floor and sustained broken ribs, internal bleeding from the spleen and a laceration to the face. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate