Incident date: 2018-01-17
NAICS industry code: 488119

An employee was putting a large box of foam insulation on the top shelf of a storage rack. He was extended over the top rail of the warehouse platform ladder. As he was pushing on the box, the ladder tipped over, and he fell approximately 4 feet to the shop floor, fracturing two vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate