Incident date: 2022-10-24
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was on an A-frame ladder inside a bunker, which he had entered to change a conveyor belt roller. While he was looking for a place to attach his retractable lanyard, the ladder slid forward. He fell, landing on the bunker floor and on the self-retracting lanyards attached to his body harness. He suffered broken ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate