Incident date: 2018-02-18
NAICS industry code: 221121

Two employees were installing a new arm on a 200 foot power pole in a 295-foot aerial lift. The lift shifted and the employees fell out of the basket. The employees were using fall protection and suffered traumatic injuries from the fall protection equipment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low