Incident date: 2023-11-14
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder while repairing the passenger-side marker light on a route truck. The employee lost their balance and fell to the ground below, sustaining fractures to their left wrist and L1 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate