 I'm just finishing up my undergrad at UWM in mechanical engineering. I was captain on the UWM sim team for two years. I got involved in the gate lab because I was interested in biomechanics and with something I was always interested on how I could be more efficient in the water. So then that led me into my research of how the human body moves on the ladder to try and make it safer. There's a lot of injuries with ladders so we're trying to reduce the injury rate and by making ladder climbing safer. It's important to look into ladder slips and falls because ladder injuries are really high and severe. So we want to find what climbing biomechanics increase recovery and what we can do to reduce the slipping. These cameras are motion capture cameras so we have little reflective markers that we place on our participants that come in to do our study. The first ladder we studied ladder slips so are the ladder would induce a slip and then we would look into how we can fix certain foot placement and stepping and then the second ladder we tried to improve recovery and we looked into different glove conditions with high friction and low friction gloves and then we had people climb this ladder and when they didn't notice coming one of the rungs would drop out and they would cause them to fall but they were safe and not a safety harness and then we're looking into if the gloves really had an improvement or not and also what other climbing biomechanics we can do to improve recovery. My name is Erica Planner and I'm a Milwaukee engineer.