Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 118560.015 - Employee Fractures Back In Fall Off Ladder During Wiring Ins

**Accident: 118560.015 -- Report ID: 0420600 -- Event Date: 07/29/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1420207.015	08/02/2019		Charter Communications, Inc.

At 11:00 a.m. on July 29, 2019, an employee responded to a work order at a resid ence to replace a coaxial cable from the main feed to the house. The main feed w as approximately 15 to 20 feet from the ground. The employee was using a ladder when he fell to the lawn below. The home owner called 911 and the employee was transported to the hospital, where he was admitted to treat a broken vertebra.

Keywords: back, blunt force, blunt force trauma, cable, fall, fall from elevation, fracture, installing, ladder, misjudgement, misjudgement of hazardous situation, telecom work, vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1420207.015	62	M	Hospitalized injury		Installers And Repairers

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