Incident date: 2016-10-21
NAICS industry code: 332321

On Friday 10/21/2016, at 0900, an employee was on the second story of a building replacing a seal on a window. The employee went to take another step up when the ladder gave out beneath him and he fell to the ground, fracturing his right and left femurs and injuring his ankle. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 21 to 25 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate