Incident date: 2021-02-17
NAICS industry code: 335311

An employee was descending a power pole. He began transferring his primary safety to underneath a communication cable; his secondary safety had not clipped in and he fell to the ground about 15 feet below. He suffered a broken left wrist, a skull fracture at the base of the neck, and an injury to the left shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Towers, poles, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate