Incident date: 2016-03-30
NAICS industry code: 238310

At approximately 2:00 p.m., on 3/30/16, an employee was climbing down from a one-story roof using a metal extension ladder. The ladder collapsed, and the employee fell approximately 10 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with two cracked right-side ribs and four cracked vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate