Today, we have an infographic showing the number of ladder accidents, injuries and deaths per year. This infographic also shows how Little Giant Ladders helps prevent the most common ladder-related injuries. Check it out here!
An 25-year old employee at a newspaper in Mass fell from a ladder in the pressroom. His fall resulted in serious injuries. The ladder was attached to the side of the printing press. When the employee fell, he injured his head. Due to privacy laws, the employee’s current health status is unknown.
For more details on the accident, visit the newspaper’s website.
We hope this man makes a full recovery. Ladder safety is important, even if the ladder is fixed. Here are a couple of ladder safety tips to help prevent accidents like this one.
We never like reading about these ladder accidents, especially because so many of them could be prevented. Follow these ladder safety tips to help prevent ladder accidents.
A UK newspaper recently traced ladder safety over the course of 40 years. The article talks about how the focus on ladder safety has changed over the years.
The article mentions that falls are the largest single cause of deaths, with the top killer being falls from roofs, ladders and stepladders during maintenance. Ladders not secured or footed also led to a number of injuries.
So, have ladders gotten any safer over the last forty years? Ladder injuries have not decreased significantly in the last forty years, the design of the ladder hasn’t changed much either. Well, until the last few years that is. Over the last few years, the ladder’s design has been changing to add safety to the engineering. Hopefully, these new designs will reduce ladder accidents and injuries as more and more people switch to use the safer designs.
I stumbled on this article about a man’s experience on a ladder. As I read, I kept thinking the article would end with the man getting injured since it seems like so many articles end that way. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I got to the end and the man had not gotten injured. Instead, this article mainly focuses on the things he does right.
In the article, the author goes through the entire process of using a ladder to cut down some tree limbs damaged by a storm. Here’s what he did right:
Here’s what I would suggest doing differently:
I really have just one suggestion. Safety guidelines suggest not leaning the ladder against the tree you are trimming and not using an extension ladder to trim trees. While the man did almost everything correct, I would recommend using a different type of ladder when trimming trees and not leaning the ladder up against the tree.
Other than that, I think he did a great job, which all contributes to why his ladder trimming ended in success and not injury.