Incident date: 2017-04-19
NAICS industry code: 515210

An employee was on a ladder trying to tie himself off onto a cable pole when the cable line broke. The employee then fell approximately 12 to 15 feet to the gravel ground, sustaining head injuries that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate