Injury Type:	Hip injury
Core Activity:	Building construction
Location:	Westman Region
ID Number:	176
Date of Incident:	April 2010
Sector:	Construction

Details

After working on a scaffold to put in ceiling tiles, the worker prepared to exit the scaffold by placing a foot onto a nearby ladder. The ladder slipped out from under the worker, who fell approximately four or five feet and landed on a concrete floor.

 

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