Incident date: 2019-10-18
NAICS industry code: 517110

An employee was installing a backyard utility pole. The employee was climbing the pole with foot spikes when the employee fell approximately 12 feet onto bushes and grass. The employee suffered a back injury with possible compressed vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate