Incident date: 2022-01-20
NAICS industry code: 517911

During a fiber placement job, an employee needed to remove a branch from an existing cable strand. He put his 24-foot extension ladder on the strand and cut the branch; the strand then broke and he fell about 15 feet. He suffered a broken elbow, broken ribs, and a bruised kidney.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate