Incident date: 2019-01-07
NAICS industry code: 238170

An employee was working from an extension ladder, hanging a gutter on the outside of a 1.5-story barn. The employee came into contact with a hornet's nest and fell from the ladder, landing on the ground about 10 feet below and fracturing two vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate