Incident date: 2016-03-11
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee was using a straight ladder to clean a horizontal coater. The employee slipped while descending the ladder, falling 6 to 8 feet to the cement floor and fracturing a leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Straight ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate