Incident date: 2015-06-16
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was standing on the third step of an eight foot step ladder pulling a cable through a conduit with a fish tape. The fish tape popped off the cable and the employee fell off the ladder and struck the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and chipped vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate