Incident date: 2018-12-04
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was demonstrating a single-man rescue kit. It is a product that allows an employee to escape from a bucket truck if the truck becomes inoperable. The kit includes a rope and a descender. The employee was to hook onto the bucket and to his harness. While descending, he fell to the ground and sustained a broken right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate