Incident date: 2019-03-21
NAICS industry code: 311513

On March 21, 2019, a maintenance technician was working from an extension ladder to get to the ceiling of a structure to perform maintenance of a heater unit. The employee fell from the ladder, suffering head trauma and fractures to the skull and lower jaw. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate