Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201094752 - Employee Injured in Fall from Ladder

Accident Summary Nr: 201094752 -- Report ID: 0950645 -- Event Date: 04/24/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300810959	05/07/2001	1731	238210	Michaels Communications Services

Abstract: An employee was assigned to remove a midspan cable television service drop for a house. He placed an 8.5-meter extension hook ladder over the suspension strand and, facing away from the house, started climbing. The service drop had been removed from the house. However, unknown to the employee, it was attached to a tree. As the employee neared the top of the ladder, the service drop broke, displacing the ladder and throwing the employee off it. He sustained head injuries in the fall and was hospitalized for more than a month.

Keywords: TELECOM WORK, CABLE TV WORK, COMMUNICATION CABLE, LADDER, FALL, FALL PROTECTION, LOST BALANCE, COMMUNICATION WORKER, UNSTABLE POSITION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Powerline, transmission line		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000	2	18

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300810959			Hospitalized injury	Concussion	Electronic repairers, communica. & indus. equip.

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