Incident date: 2015-11-27
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was installing holiday decorations from the bucket of a bucket truck when the piston broke on the lower arm of the bucket truck causing the bucket to fall with the employee harnessed inside. The employee suffered broken ribs and a lacerated spleen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate