Incident date: 2024-06-13
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was working from the bucket of a truck, replacing a span of coax main line cable. He leaned against the bucket door which opened, and he fell approximately 20 feet onto the asphalt road below. The employee sustained a fractured skull, wrist, elbow, and ankle as well as other internal injuries and was hospitalized for surgery. He was wearing fall protection and a hard hat at the time of the fall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  6 to 30 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, cherry picker
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  n.e.c.
severity: moderate