Incident date: 2020-04-28
NAICS industry code: 922160

An employee climbed 5 feet up a 10-foot ladder to tighten a coupler bolt when the employee fell to the ground, suffering a back injury with fractured vertebrae.

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: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate