NAICS515210Event Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levelsSource Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
An employee was approximately 5 feet up on a ladder while drilling a hole for cable installation. A wasp attacked him. As he was coming down the ladder, he landed…
NAICS517919Event Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feetSource Extension ladders
An employee was on an extension ladder, about 15-18 feet high, while spraying a wasp nest on a telecommunications pole. He fell to the ground and sustained fractures to…
NAICS517919Event Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feetSource Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
An employee was working from a ladder, pulling a cable line through a wall at a customer's house. He lost his balance and jumped off the ladder, landed on…
NAICS517311Event Indirect exposure to electricity 220 volts or lessSource Power lines, transformers, convertors
Employees were working to secure a low-hanging feeder. An employee was elevated in a bucket at a height of approximately 12 feet and was pulling the lashing wire. The…
Electrical burns any degree Trunk and other upper extremitiesHospitalized
An employee was knocking on a customer's door when two dogs from a neighboring house attacked them, resulting in bite wounds that required hospitalization.
Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures Part of body unspecifiedHospitalized
NAICS515210Event Fall on same level due to slip or tripSource Constructed surface irregularity
An employee was walking in a parking lot when he tripped over a bolt protruding from the ground and fell. He suffered two fractures in his right elbow, as well…
Fractures and soft tissue injuries Elbow(s)Hospitalized
NAICS517919Event Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feetSource Extension ladders
An employee was on an extension ladder to cut a high-tension midspan cable when it retracted, causing the employee to fall approximately 15-20 feet to the ground below…
Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified Head, neck, trunkHospitalized
NAICS517919Event Other fall to lower level unspecifiedSource Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
An employee was installing a fiber optic cable at a customer location when he fell from his ladder to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured tailbone and a neck…
NAICS515210Event Roadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle Source Trucks unspecified
An employee was parked along the side of a road working on a fiber outage. An automobile driven by an intoxicated person crossed over into the designated work zone and…
Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders unspecified Multiple body parts n.e.c.Hospitalized
NAICS517311Event Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 30 feetSource Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
An employee was working from a ladder attached to cable lines 18 feet above the ground when the cable detached and they fell with the ladder to the ground. They…
NAICS517510EventOther fall to lower level, unspecifiedSourceExtension ladders
An employee was troubleshooting cable television services at a residential home. While ascending the extension ladder, the ladder slid, causing the employee to fall. They sustained four vertebrae fractures as…
NAICS515210EventOther fall to lower level, unspecifiedSourceExtension ladders
An employee was working from an extension ladder in a back yard, disconnecting an aerial telecommunications cable line from a house. The employee fell backward from the ladder to the…
FracturesBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedHospitalized
NAICS515210EventOther fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet SourceMovable ladders, unspecified
An employee was standing on a ladder to replace a cable line from a pole to a residential property. They were hooked to the old cable line when the line…
NAICS515210EventOther fall to lower level, unspecifiedSourceExtension ladders
An employee was on an extension ladder, installing cable from a pole in an alley. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground and suffered a broken left arm.
NAICS517911EventOther fall to lower level 16 to 20 feetSourceExtension ladders
An employee was using an extension ladder to replace a telecommunication line. The employee fell approximately 16 feet to the ground and injured his back and head.
Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injuryHead and trunkHospitalized
NAICS517911EventOther fall to lower level, unspecifiedSourceStep ladders
An employee was working from a step ladder to replace an outside aerial cable drop running from a pole to a customer's house. He fell from the ladder to…
NAICS517911EventOther fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet SourceLadders, unspecified
A Charter Communications service technician was at a customer's location installing a communications line between telephone poles. While descending a ladder, the technician's foot slipped off a rung…
FracturesBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedHospitalized
NAICS515120EventStruck by swinging part of powered vehicleSourcePassenger van
A technician arrived at a service call. He exited his vehicle and opened the passenger side door of the van to collect his face mask from the center console. A…
NAICS515210EventOther fall to lower level, unspecifiedSourceMovable ladders, unspecified
An employee was climbing a ladder that had been placed on a cable strand. The ladder started to slide on the sloping strand until its strand hook caught, flipping the…
Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunkMultiple trunk locationsHospitalized