Incident date: 2017-07-25
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was climbing the ladder on the back of his tractor trailer when his fingers became entangled in the ladder and he lost his balance. He fell 5 to 6 feet to the ground and sustained fractured ribs, a left pointer finger laceration, and bleeding in the brain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate