Incident date: 2017-08-07
NAICS industry code: 238160

On August 7, 2017, at approximately 2:30PM, employees were coming down from the roof for a break. An employee unhooked the harness of their personal fall arrest equipment to come down the ladder, lost footing and fell approximately 24 feet to the ground below. The employee suffered a broken femur, broken wrist, punctured lung, and a fractured hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
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