Incident date: 2023-10-17
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was in the bucket of a bucket truck while raising communication cables. The employee was getting pinched by the cables and the bucket, so he tried to climb over the cables. The tension in the cables gave way, propelling him out of the bucket and onto the bed of a flatbed truck. The employee suffered injuries that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate