Incident date: 2022-11-17
NAICS industry code: 713110

An employee was in a bucket truck performing repairs on a radio tower when the arm on the bucket truck was retracted. The employee began to step out and onto another step of the bucket truck and fell approximately eight feet to the ground, sustaining a vertebra fracture of the back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate