Incident date: 2017-01-29
NAICS industry code: 445110

An employee was trying to stabilize a leaning stacked pallet. He climbed the nearby roof access stairs and was reaching to straighten the pallet when he fell over the stair railing about 10 feet and landed on his back on the floor below. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to repair fractures to his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Stairs, steps-indoors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate