Incident date: 2025-03-19
NAICS industry code: 238220

On March 18, 2025, an employee was working from an 8-foot A-frame ladder while using a battery-powered impact wrench to break bolts loose from a pipe in the ceiling. As they descended the ladder, the employee fell to the ground, resulting in a brain bleed and cut/scrapes on their hands.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate