Incident date: 2018-11-29
NAICS industry code: 115113

An employee was going up a ladder near the top of a module builder when he stepped off the ladder and went to open the door of the module builder cab.  He reached to open the cab door and lost his balance, falling to his right. He grabbed at the ladder but missed, and his right leg went through the ladder and snapped, breaking both bones in his lower leg. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate