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On 3/30/2024, an employee was installing internet services at a private home from a 4-foot step ladder when they lost their balance and fell to the ground. The employee landed on top of the ladder and sustained three broken ribs on the left side, a dislocated elbow and wrist, and possible torn ligaments. The employee required surgery on the wrist.

An employee passed out while sitting in a meeting. He was hospitalized with altitude sickness and dehydration.

An employee was standing on a 4-foot step ladder, using a hand drill to screw in a telecommunications cable anchor, when his foot slipped between two rungs, causing him to fall. He suffered a leg injury to the quadricep muscle and tendons.

An employee was ascending a ladder to remove a drop (phone line) when the employee fell off the ladder to the ground, fracturing a wrist and ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee fell from a ladder to the ground at a customer's house, suffering clavicle and rib fractures, brain bleeding, and loss of consciousness.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

On June 16, 2025, at 4:30 p.m., an employee was ascending an 8-foot A-frame ladder to look inside an attic opening of a customer's garage. The employee was three rungs from the top when he fell 5 feet to the ground, resulting in a displaced fracture of his femur in the back of his knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was about to install a cable at a residential site. While setting up a ladder, he stepped back on an uneven street surface and hyperextended his knee. He dislocated his knee and tore his patellar tendon.

An employee was descending a ladder when it shifted, slid, and twisted. The employee fell about 12 feet to the ground and broke his left hip. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee lost his balance when the extension ladder he was on shifted and he fell approximately 15 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to his elbow and hip.

An employee fell while lifting a box and suffered a wrist injury.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.