Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating
Start: 6/21/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017065717 · 6/21/2017 · Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Nonclassifiable
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Step ladders

Employer

Name: Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating
Location: 660 N. Westmoreland Road, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, 60045
NAICS: 238220
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was fixing a sprinkler head while standing on an A-frame ladder when the leg of the ladder slipped on the vinyl flooring. The employee then fell from the ladder, hitting a window sill and then the floor. He injured his vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown