Incident date: 2023-03-07
NAICS industry code: 531210

An employee was patching sheet rock holes inside of a unit while on an 8-foot, A-frame ladder. The employee fell from the ladder and sustained a concussion and three compression fractures of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate