Incident date: 2025-05-21
NAICS industry code: 532120

An employee was washing equipment while standing on the second rung of an A-frame ladder. He stepped down, missed the bottom rung, and fell backward to the ground landing on his left side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate