Incident date: 2021-08-19
NAICS industry code: 813110

At about 3:00 p.m. on August 19, 2021, an employee was on a ladder, hanging artwork on a church wall. A volunteer leaned on the opposite side of the ladder, trying to support the employee, and the ladder destabilized. The employee fell to the floor and suffered a broken right shoulder, as well as a contusion to his right elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate