Incident date: 2022-05-17
NAICS industry code: 311615

An employee was on a 90-inch high cantilever ladder inspecting a mobile blood trailer at the facility. The employee and the ladder fell to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a fractured L1 vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate