Incident date: 2016-03-13
NAICS industry code: 331511

On March 13, 2016, an employee was putting a belt (48" wide by 17' long) on the screener.  The employee was on a ladder three rungs up. When he attempted to pull on the belt, the ladder went out from underneath him and he fell to the floor. He suffered a compression fracture to his lumbar vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate