Incident date: 2023-10-24
NAICS industry code: 623311

An employee had been cleaning windows inside an apartment. He went to step out onto a brick ledge to clean the exterior of the windows and lost balance. He fell from the third floor ledge to the patio/grass below and landed on his feet. The employee sustained vertebral compression fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Windows, openings
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate