Incident date: 2019-11-01
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee had been inspecting a roof line from a ladder. As the employee climbed down the ladder, the ladder's base gave out and the employee fell onto a porch roof and deck. The employee suffered a compression fracture to a back vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate