Incident date: 2017-10-17
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was standing on a 6-foot platform ladder while attempting to get his welding wire to feed properly through his weld wire feeder. He fell off the ladder and landed on the hook of a torch cutting station stand, suffering a laceration that was approximately 5 inches long and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate