Incident date: 2022-10-25
NAICS industry code: 713110

An employee had just trimmed the fronds of a palm tree from a portable extension ladder. He fell from the ladder; his back landed on a large landscape rock and his ribs were broken. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate