Incident date: 2020-04-04
NAICS industry code: 517110

An employee carried an extension ladder to the work location and was raising it to a strand. He realized that the strand hooks were not extended, so he slowly lowered the ladder to extend the strand hooks. He then stepped into a hole in the customer's yard and twisted his ankle. He was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Trip from stepping into a hole without fall
code_source: title: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate