Incident date: 2021-01-12
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was securing a third antenna mount to a cell tower. While adjusting his position on the tower, to move the mount being winched into place, he fell approximately 145 feet to the ground, resulting in a broken back, broken pelvis, broken ribs, spleen trauma, and other contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Telecommunications and cell phone towers
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate