Incident date: 2018-06-01
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was on the third rung of a 10-foot step ladder pulling wire when he fell off the ladder and broke his leg, requiring hospitalization. The ladder had a bad rear horizontal section at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate