Incident date: 2024-02-09
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was pulling electrical wire into the attic. While attempting to climb down a portable ladder out of the attic, they fell to the ground below, resulting in two fractured vertebrae in their cervical spine that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck
severity: moderate