Incident date: 2024-07-25
NAICS industry code: 221122

An overhead line crew was replacing a sub-transmission pole with distribution underbuilt. While dismantling the old pole hardware a glass insulator weighing approximately 27 pounds fell approximately 30 feet and stuck the injured employee, who was on the ground, in the upper right arm, breaking their humerus.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Electric parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper arm(s)
severity: moderate