Incident date: 2018-07-17
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was standing on a 10-foot A-frame ladder installing an eave drip. The ladder shifted and he fell about 5 feet to the ground, fracturing a vertebra in his lower back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate