Incident date: 2025-05-16
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was adjusting a garage door while standing on a 6-foot A-frame ladder when he lost balance and fell from the ladder to the ground below, resulting in three fractured vertebrae in the lower back that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate