Incident date: 2023-09-05
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee was going down a 3-4-foot ladder when he stepped off facing the ladder. As the employee stepped down, he landed on the ground and sustained a head injury and brain hemorrhaging that required hospitalization and stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate