Incident date: 2024-05-29
NAICS industry code: 238290

Employees were changing a broken spring on the inside of a storage unit. The injured employee was taking a pipe wrench off the torsion tube when the pipe wrench slipped off the tube, causing the employee to fall backward from the second rung of a 6-foot ladder. They fell to the concrete floor and landed on their right foot, resulting in a dislocation and fracture to the right ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate