Incident date: 2025-05-09
NAICS industry code: 238160

An employee was cutting boards near the edge of the first floor of an apartment building that had lost its roof, and many of its walls, to a fire. He stepped onto a ladder and it toppled over the side of the building and he fell with the ladder. He suffered fractures to a lower-back vertebra and both heels.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate