Incident date: 2017-11-10
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was working from a ladder, installing a header/beam and form board/plywood, when he suffered a cramp in his lower back, which caused his leg to fall asleep. He then fell from the ladder onto protruding pieces of unguarded steel/rebar, impaling his thigh.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate