Incident date: 2017-08-17
NAICS industry code: 238220

On August 17, 2017, an employee was on a step ladder helping to remove a sanitary sewer pipe in a ceiling when the employee fell approximately 4 feet off the step ladder, suffering cracked back vertebrae and requiring hospitalization.

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