Incident date: 2023-09-21
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was trimming trees below an electric line and was using a rope to pull the trees down. The employee was on a tag line pulling an electric line over when they pulled slack out of the rope. The rope caught a limb on an adjacent dead tree, causing it to strike the employee on the hard hat and right shoulder. The employee suffered a shoulder fracture requiring surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate