Incident date: 2018-01-10
NAICS industry code: 515210

On January 10, 2018, at 10:20 a.m., an employee was descending a ladder after cutting a second story cable line from a residential address. The first floor cable line was still connected and under tension, which destabilized the ladder during his descent.  Feeling the ladder shifting under him, he dismounted from the fourth or fifth rung up and landed on his side, fracturing his left wrist.  He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate