Incident date: 2020-08-29
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was working from a ladder as part of a crew who were tearing off an old roof on a residential property. The employee missed a rung as he was climbing down the ladder and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken right wrist. He 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: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate