Incident date: 2022-07-12
NAICS industry code: 238210

A lineman had finished connecting a strand of cable to a pole. He was being lowered to the ground in a bucket. An RV coach drove through the work zone and caught the strand, which was lying across the road. The lineman was thrown 25-30 feet from the bucket to the ground and suffered multiple fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Motor home, RV
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate