Incident date: 2018-05-30
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was working on an extension ladder that was being held by another employee cutting old wire off a pole. When the line was cut, the wire struck the employee on the ladder causing the employee to fall approximately 14 feet off the ladder. He fell onto a portable toilet and then onto asphalt. The employee sustained a six-inch laceration to the back of the head, broken ribs and fractured vertebrae in his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Extension ladders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate