Incident date: 2015-03-25
NAICS industry code: 238210

At approximately 8:10 p.m., on 3/25/15, an employee fell 20 to 30 feet from an articulating boom bucket to the ground. The employee was tightening bolts for mast arms on traffic signal lights when the clip tie-off point broke and the employee fell. The employee sustained cracked lumbar vertebrae and head lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 26 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate