Incident date: 2019-04-03
NAICS industry code: 238210

A cable installer at a residential single family home hooked his ladder over a metal strand line, climbed up the ladder and hooked up his fall protection to the strand line and began diagnostics on the communications line. A splice on the strand line failed resulting in the ladder and the employee falling 18 feet to the concrete driveway below. The employee sustained fractures to the elbow and pelvis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate