Incident date: 2024-12-02
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was performing maintenance on a field light for a football field. The employee was descending the light pole when the lifeline broke and he fell approximately 22 feet to the grass below. The employee sustained a fractured left arm and a punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Utility poles
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Lung(s), pleura
severity: moderate