Incident date: 2022-10-11
NAICS industry code: 442110

An employee was working from an 8-foot A-frame ladder, repositioning a Wi-Fi box attached to a drop ceiling. As he pulled a ceiling tile toward himself, he lost his balance and fell back off the ladder. He suffered fractures to the ribs and back.

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