Incident date: 2019-12-30
NAICS industry code: 517911

An employee was standing on a 4-foot step ladder, using a hand drill to screw in a telecommunications cable anchor, when his foot slipped between two rungs, causing him to fall. He suffered a leg injury to the quadricep muscle and tendons.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc., unspecified
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate