Incident date: 2019-09-26
NAICS industry code: 517919

Four employees were working on cable pairs, doing aerial work. One of them was 20 feet up on a ladder that was leaning on a strand. The strand gave way and the employee fell with the ladder, suffering a closed fracture of a lower-back vertebra.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate