Incident date: 2021-03-16
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee fell from an extension ladder onto an asphalt pavement about 15 feet below, suffering a skull fracture, internal bleeding in the head, a broken collarbone, broken vertebrae, five to eight broken ribs, and a liver laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate