Incident date: 2023-11-15
NAICS industry code: 238310

An employee was standing on an 8-foot step ladder while wrapping insulation around an air duct. As he pulled a section of insulation around, the momentum caused him to fall approximately 4 feet to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a compression fracture of the L1 vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate