It looks like this dude won't be clocking out early. Whatever his job was before, for the next couple of hours it'll be "guy who stands on a ladder until help arrives." I actually wonder how common this is. We've seen one other picture like this so far. Think about all the times when no one had a camera to take photo evidence of the tragedy. It seems like this should be pretty common based on ladder design, though I don't remember the last time I was on a ladder and worried about it happening. I guess that's how the best accidents happen.
Cell phones are amazing pieces of technology. Back in the old days this guy would have starved to death up there. He wouldn't have come home to his family that night and they'd have just assumed that he left them forever, the way men did back then.