Incident date: 2015-02-04
NAICS industry code: 561310

On February 4, 2015, at approximately 11:15 a.m., an employee working on an upper level of a new medical center construction at 505 Baxter Parkway in Social Circle, Georgia, descended a caged ladder to get something to eat.  The employee fell an estimated 10 or 12 feet to a lower level, suffering a fractured L-1 vertebrae, and was airlifted to the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where he was admitted and scheduled for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate