Incident date: 2025-02-12
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was pre-stressing (stretching) cable for precast concrete light poles. The jack used to stress the cable slipped and one cable recoiled and struck a second cable. The employee went to retrieve the jack and the second cable recoiled and struck his leg. He sustained a severe laceration to the left thigh.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled object or substance  unspecified
code_source: title: Wire, cables nonelectrified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate