Incident date: 2024-01-20
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was ascending a straight ladder to exit the bottom of an elevator shaft when he lost balance and fell approximately 4-5 feet onto wood wire reels. He suffered rib fractures resulting in partial pneumothorax and sustained compression fractures to 2 or 3 thoracic vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Straight ladders
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate