As suspected. Very sad. It’s also why I was so critical of the family.
Ladder safety is a very serious matter and learning lessons vicariously is a benefit of sharing the cause of such accidents.
I just can’t wrap my head around why the family would have withheld such info for so long. It’s stupid and reckless.
https://blog.ansi.org/ali/make-ladder-safety-a-priority-injury-statistics/
As one who was working on a ladder about two years ago and had the misfortune to cause it to fall over so that I was knocked out momentarily and awoke to a broken wrist and a cut under my chin that took four stitches to repair, I can relate. I did two things wrong: not keeping the ladder straight in front of me (it was at a slight angle) and using a drill bit that was a bit dull. I applied too much pressure on the drill motor/bit, and the ladder went one way, and I went the other. It happened the day after I finished physical therapy for rotator cuff surgery! :(