Incident date: 2018-11-09
NAICS industry code: 451120

An employee was climbing a ladder holding a bushel basket. The basket hit a shelf, which fell; the employee flipped backwards off the ladder and landed on his back on the floor. He suffered a broken vertebra in his lower back, with fragments sticking into the spinal canal.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate