Lucky Worker Lands on Feet – Literally

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

A Pleasant Hill worker walked away from a five-story fall with only bruises and scratches after literally landing on his feet.Ken Larsen, who was laying telecommunications cable on top of a building in Walnut Creek with a co-worker, survived his fall by holding onto the cable.According to a newspaper account, a woman working in the building where the cable project was under way saw Larson as he "came whizzing by" her window upside down and screaming. She quickly went outside and to

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