Incident date: 2016-04-30
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was performing maintenance to a street light in a parking lot. The employee was cranking down on a come-along with a steel cable. The connector between the cable and the lamp broke causing the lamp to swing and strike the employee in the head. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Lamp posts, street lights
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate