Incident date: 2017-02-24
NAICS industry code: 238220

While working on the air conditioning on a new home construction, an employee fell off an eight-foot ladder suffering a compression fracture of the L1 and L4 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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