Incident date: 2017-11-28
NAICS industry code: 238210

On November 28, 2017, at approximately 11:00 a.m., an employee was installing telephone service in the basement of a residential customer. He was standing on the second rung of a fiberglass step ladder when one of the ladder hinges buckled, causing him to fall to the basement floor. He fractured his tibia and fibula, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate