Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment unspecified · Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
Final narrative
A maintenance employee was working on the overhead garage door shaft at the center. He turned the power to the door off so he could work on it. He climbed up a ladder and was working on the door when a customer pulled up and entered their code, and the door started to open. Another employee came to help get the door down and the ladder fell. The maintenance employee fell and sustained a fractured left leg, a broken tooth, and a right shoulder contusion. The employee was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Head and extremities Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.
An employee climbed an aluminum extension ladder inside a grain bin to help remove a stirring machine. As the farmer began to lower the stirring machine from the top, one of the ropes broke, causing the stirring machine to strike the ladder and knock it out from under the employee. The employee fell to the base of the grain bin and sustained fractures requiring hospitalization.
An employee was working on a 6-foot ladder that was leaned against a gas compression engine. The ladder feet slipped on the working surface, causing the ladder to become unstable. The employee fell off the ladder and suffered bilateral wrist fractures.
An employee was pulling a data cable through a ceiling. He fell through the ceiling, landing at ground level. He suffered a laceration to the forehead, a dislocated left little finger, a broken left ring finger, and a laceration to the liver.