Incident date: 2023-07-03
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was working in an aerial device on a bridge, removing tree limbs. A tree limb broke and jostled the bucket, causing the employee to fall from the bucket into a body of water below the bridge. They sustained a compression fracture of the T12 vertebra and contusions to the chest and neck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thoracic region
severity: moderate