Incident date: 2021-01-06
NAICS industry code: 488190

At 10:00 a.m. on January 6, 2021, an employee was descending an aircraft's boarding ladder when his foot got caught on the bottom rung. He fell backward onto the concrete floor about 2.5 to 3 feet below. The back of his head struck the floor, and he suffered an abrasion and brain swelling.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Ladders-fixed
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate