Incident date: 2016-05-16
NAICS industry code: 452111

An employee was preparing to install a TV monitor. He was working from an 8-foot ladder and using a voltage tester to evaluate wiring to power the monitor when he made contact with a live electrical wire and fell off the ladder. He hit his head, cracked his vertebra and rib, and suffered a laceration that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate