Incident date: 2023-05-30
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to access a dust collector on a silo. As the injured employee handed paperwork to another employee standing on the platform, the injured employee lost their footing and fell 13.5 feet. They sustained a laceration to the back of the head, compression fractures to T-12, L-1 and possibly L-2 vertebrae as well as left ankle and thigh pain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple back regions
severity: moderate