Incident date: 2015-07-16
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was operating a pole grab machine to load electrical poles onto a trailer.  The pole became dislodged, fell, and hit the employee in the face, resulting in hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate