Incident date: 2017-06-12
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was climbing down a step ladder when he missed a step. He tried to grab onto a ceiling tile on the drop ceiling, but it could not hold his weight and he fell to the ground, breaking his hip. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate