Incident date: 2023-06-12
NAICS industry code: 238210

On June 12, 2023, an employee was in a classroom tying up the lights in a ceiling grid in preparation to remove the ceiling tiles. He was working from a 10-foot A-frame ladder. As he was descending the ladder, he missed a rung and fell about 7 feet to the floor, sustaining a laceration to his left eyebrow and a fracture to his left elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Elbow(s)
severity: moderate