Employee Sustains Back Injury When Ladder Slips and Falls

At approximately 3:24 p.m. on June 4, 2012, Employee #1 was working as a stockroom worker and sales associate for Burlington Coat Factory, in Daly City, CA. He was using a ladder in a stockroom. A coworker, who was also a sales associate, watched Employee #1 lean a stepladder up against stockroom shelving to gain access to boxes on the top shelf. Employee #1 was using the stepladder without opening up its legs or engaging its spreader braces or spreader bars. She saw him climb up the steps. The coworker then turned […]