Incident date: 2019-06-11
NAICS industry code: 423330

An employee was moving an extension ladder from a house in order to load it back onto a truck. The ladder either made contact with an electric line or the electricity arced to the ladder and electrocuted the employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Indirect exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Electrocutions, electric shocks
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate