Incident date: 2019-07-20
NAICS industry code: 517110

At 4:50 p.m. on July 20, 2019, an employee was clearing a tree caught in a downed telecommunication line. The tree shifted and struck the employee, who suffered a severed spinal cord and fractures of vertebrae, pelvis, shoulder, and ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries to spinal cord, unspecified
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate