STURGEON BAY, WISCONSIN—
Charter Communications LLC.
Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Charter Communications LLC., 824 Egg Harbor Dr., STURGEON BAY, WISCONSIN 54235 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head and trunk.
Final narrative
An employee was removing a service drop at a residential location while on a 28-ft. extension ladder. While ascending or descending the ladder, the employee fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with head and back injuries.
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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 grass below, suffering fractured vertebrae in their back.
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An employee was descending a ladder that was positioned against a gutter. The ladder slid on the gutter and the employee fell onto concrete pavers about 10 feet below, landing on and breaking their arm.
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An employee fell from an extension ladder onto an asphalt pavement about 15 feet below, suffering a skull fracture, internal bleeding in the head, a broken collarbone, broken vertebrae, five to eight broken ribs, and a liver laceration. The employee was hospitalized.
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WORTHINGTON, OHIO—
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A cable installer at a residential single family home hooked his ladder over a metal strand line, climbed up the ladder and hooked up his fall protection to the strand line and began diagnostics on the communications line. A splice on the strand line failed resulting in the ladder and the employee falling 18 feet to the concrete driveway below. The employee sustained fractures to the elbow and pelvis.
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