Incident date: 2018-01-26
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was working out of a bucket truck to cut off the top of a pine tree when the tree top fell and hit the boom of the bucket truck. The employee was ejected 40 feet out of the truck to the surface below, suffering facial and back fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate