Incident date: 2021-03-11
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was using a ladder to get inside a manhole to measure a pipe that was being replaced. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground and suffered a compression fracture in their back. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate