Incident date: 2017-09-06
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was painting the walls and ceiling in a school room. While descending a 12-foot A-frame ladder, he felt dizzy, missed a step, and fell 8 or 9 feet to the floor, bruising his head, scraping his right arm, and fracturing his right hip. He was hospitalized.

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: Hip(s)
severity: moderate