Incident date: 2018-07-16
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was 8 feet up a 10-foot A-frame ladder. As he began to climb down, he lost his footing and fell to the floor, sustaining a lumbar fracture. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate