Incident date: 2016-01-29
NAICS industry code: 335999

An employee was removing an old pole to replace it with a new one. The chain that was holding the old pole was out of center. The employee grabbed the pole and he was lifted. Then he fell from the pole and landed on the outrigger of the truck. The employee was hospitalized for chipped vertebrae in his back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate