Incident date: 2019-02-15
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was standing on the third step of a 6-foot ladder, pulling telephone cable through a ceiling. He fell to the carpeted floor about 10 feet below, and his head struck the wall. He suffered two skull fractures and a trace mastoid effusion. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Movable ladders, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate