Incident date: 2015-07-11
NAICS industry code: 517110

An employee was dispatched to replace a telephone pole after a car accident. While removing the old pole, it snapped approximately 3/4 up causing that section to fall and strike the employee on the left shoulder. The employee was taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate