Incident date: 2021-06-21
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was installing a 277-volt light fixture while on a 6-foot, A-frame ladder when the employee contacted a phase of the conductor and was shocked, causing him to fall backward off the ladder to the ground below. The employee suffered trauma to their head, neck, and chest.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head, neck, and trunk
severity: moderate