Incident date: 2017-12-16
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was using a wire wheel on an electric hand grinder to remove dried concrete slurry from a vertical steel column while on a 12-foot step ladder. The employee was reaching around the column and fell to the floor resulting in a right femur fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate