Incident date: 2022-05-07
NAICS industry code: 332420

An employee was standing on a ladder setting the spider arm. The tack weld on the left arm broke causing the spider arm to fall toward the employee. The employee fell backward off the ladder and the ladder and spider arm landed on the employee causing a broken hip, a dislocated femur and a fractured left elbow. The employee also sustained possible internal injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate