Incident date: 2019-06-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working on a four-step step ladder repairing a pane of glass over a door frame. While descending the ladder, he missed a step and fell backwards into a corner wall. The employee was hospitalized for back pain and tingling in his legs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate