Incident date: 2025-07-22
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was working from a bucket truck about 30 feet in the air. A tree section the employee had just cut made contact with the bucket or boom of the truck, and the employee was forced out of the bucket. The employee fell to the ground and suffered broken ribs, a broken shoulder blade, a broken collarbone, and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, cherry picker
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Trunk and other upper extremities
severity: moderate