Incident date: 2023-02-27
NAICS industry code: 336412

An employee was climbing a portable ladder to remove a small panel cover from the exterior of an aircraft. The employee fell approximately 7 feet to the concrete floor below and sustained a skull fracture and brain hemorrhaging. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate