Incident date: 2022-02-15
NAICS industry code: 423330

An employee was standing on a ladder, having climbed it to change out glass on a broken window above a patio door. The ladder slipped and he fell 8-10 feet to the concrete ground below. He suffered bleeding in the brain, a broken right wrist, a fracture/dislocation to the left elbow, and a broken lower left leg. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate