Incident date: 2017-09-30
NAICS industry code: 611310

An employee was scraping wallpaper off the wall in an apartment while standing on a kitchen countertop. As he was descending from the countertop onto a step ladder, he lost his balance and fell about 3 feet to the floor, breaking his right hip, spraining his right wrist, and straining his right shoulder. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Counters, counter tops
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate