Incident date: 2016-04-30
NAICS industry code: 486110

An employee was working on a 10 foot step ladder, clipping clamps onto steel pipe stacked 4-high (14 ft. to top of pipes). The ladder tipped over and the employee fell 6' to 8' to the ground breaking the left tibia requiring surgery to repair.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate