Incident date: 2015-11-06
NAICS industry code: 517110

An employee placed a ladder on communication strands and began to climb it.  The strand broke, causing him to fall and break three vertebrae in his back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate