Incident date: 2023-09-28
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was changing out a light on a 20-foot metal pole. The pole broke at the bottom, which caused the employee to fall approximately 20 feet down the ladder to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the right heel and a vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate