it will work for me and easily replicated when its dragging straight behind me. It seems if i toss it to the side or some how mess with the ragdoll like attributes to fling it out of a straight(ish) line behind me then i can usually avoid it.

What this might mean is that your issue an mine are the same, when its straight behind me im walking on it, and when its in front of you, you are walking on it. i don't seem to have the issue if the cable is off to my side.
and even when not holding a cable if i walk over a cable or onto a pile of them by an array of panels my char gets very jumpy hard to move and shakes a lot. overall i think there is something wrong with being 'on' cables.

I found that when i install a device like a solar panel, mmrtg, etc on top of a cable it has a high chance of causing this issue where the cable gets buried into the ground.

on a side note i tried the note (0000929) zathras twice now and have not been able to respool the stuck cable, seems like this may only be a partial work around