Incident date: 2023-08-18
NAICS industry code: 311930

On August 18, 2023, at approximately 9:00 a.m., an employee was cleaning an overhead drain line while on a 6-foot A-frame ladder. The employee was descending the ladder when they slipped and the ladder frame shifted. The employee then fell to the ground below, resulting in two fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate