Incident date: 2025-08-14
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was climbing a ladder to inspect the roof of a church when the ladder slipped and the employee fell. He went to grab the rain gutter along the eave to break his fall when his right hand contacted a sharp edge on the gutter, resulting in a laceration to the right-hand fingers that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate