Incident date: 2017-12-22
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was holding onto a ladder to check cargo seals on a milk tanker when the employee's foot slipped. The employee then fell approximately 5 feet to the asphalt lower level, suffering a back injury and requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate