Incident date: 2018-10-16
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was descending a wooden electrical pole line with his climbing belt, pull strap, climbing boots, and spikes. He unbelted in order to climb below the telephone lines. While he was putting his climbing belt back on with the pull strap, his spikes lost contact with the wooden pole, causing him to fall 20 feet to the ground and fracture both hips. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate