Incident date: 2023-09-14
NAICS industry code: 221121

An employee was carrying 3-foot string glass insulator bells to hand off to the other employees in the bucket truck. As he was carrying the glass insulator bells, he took a step back and stepped on a chunk of dirt. The employee fell backward and landed on another set of bells that was behind him, resulting in fractures to a rib and three vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface
code_source: title: Ground irregularity
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate