Incident date: 2016-05-05
NAICS industry code: 321918

An employee climbed up a vertical fixed ladder to verify lengths of material in the loft and as the employee was coming down the ladder, he missed a step and fell approximately seven feet to the ground, injuring his hip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate