Incident date: 2023-04-13
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was standing on a ladder drilling into a wooden 2x4 when the wood broke, causing him to lose balance and fall off the ladder striking his head on the concrete below. The employee sustained a concussion and skull fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate