Incident date: 2023-05-11
NAICS industry code: 562910

An employee was on the eleventh rung of a 28-foot extendable ladder when they fell 11 feet to the concrete floor. The employee sustained spinal vertebral fractures, a spinal cord injury, and nerve damage to the intestines.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate