Incident date: 2019-08-27
NAICS industry code: 926130

An employee and his crew were removing a broken power pole. The top portion of the pole was hung in a tree and still attached to the power lines. The crew was digging the bottom broken section out of the ground when they heard the top portion crack. The broken pole fell on the employee and injured his lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate