Incident date: 2023-05-24
NAICS industry code: 517911

An employee was on a ladder repairing a service drop from a pole to the customer's home. The employee cut the wire at the mid-span, causing the wire to release tension. The employee fell from their ladder onto the paved roadway below and sustained head/facial abrasions as well as an L1 vertebral fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate