Incident date: 2022-09-28
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was climbing down a 5-foot-tall masonry scaffold using the ladder on the side. His foot slipped on the rung and he fell backward from the ladder, landing on 1-inch PVC electrical conduits stubbed up out of the ground. A conduit broke a thoracic vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate