Incident date: 2018-10-30
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was installing light fixtures in a drop ceiling from an 8-foot step ladder. The employee slipped off the third rung while descending the ladder and fell to the ground. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae and was hospitalized.

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