Incident date: 2015-09-02
NAICS industry code: 517510

An employee was preparing to run a new cable line from a utility pole to a house. The employee leaned a 28-foot ladder against the cable strand and was climbing or working when the staple fastener that was holding a strand support came out of the pole. The strand then fell 4 feet and the employee fell from the ladder, sustaining a serious head injury and other broken bones.

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