Incident date: 2024-08-12
NAICS industry code: 237130

On August 12, 2024, an employee was traveling in a boom lift through a substation when it contacted an angle iron brace. The employee's body was caught between the brace and the boom lift controls and they sustained a fractured jaw.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Jaw, chin
severity: moderate