Incident date: 2018-07-10
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was about to climb a 15-foot chain ladder to exit a horizontal vessel. When he stepped onto the ladder, it became unstable and he fell. He landed on his back on the vessel's floor, suffering multiple broken vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate