A 40-year-old corrections officer died of injuries received when he fell off a ladder six months earlier. At the time of the incident, the victim was supervising a crew shoveling snow from a roof, about 11 feet up, at a public works project. The project agency supplied an 18-foot (six meter) wood straight ladder without safety feet to access the roof. An inmate on the ground was stabilizing the ladder as the victim ascended when the ladder started to slide. It appeared to the inmate holding the ladder that as the victim stepped off onto the roof, his feet became entangled […]