Incident date: 2025-08-31
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was performing maintenance/electrical work inside a substation, and used a ladder to access the top of a panel box. The employee fell 8-9 feet from the top of the panel box to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their ribs and a shoulder injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Switchboards, panels, fuses
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate