Incident date: 2024-04-16
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was climbing a pole during a training exercise. He climbed above a secondary line, reconnected his fall protection device, put his weight on it, and it held. The employee fell when he tried to put his weight to the device again. The employee suffered a broken right heel and a vertebra fracture in his lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Utility poles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate