105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #891218

LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL

Event
LADDER,CONSTRUCTION,FALL
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
891218
Report ID
352420

Event description

Employee injured in fall from ladder

Investigation abstract

After some window frames had been painted, Employee #1 had to scrape and clean t he glass. He fell from a 24-ft-long portable metal ladder. He was hospitalized f or injuries sustained in the fall.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 27 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    3
    Event type
    5
    Source
    25
    Occupation code
    579
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.