Incident date: 2022-09-15
NAICS industry code: 238210

At 1:00 p.m. on September 15, 2022, an employee was on a utility pole disconnecting its cross-arms. The pole broke and the employee fell with it onto adjacent tree branches, then to the ground 30 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple contusions and fractures to the head and torso as well as internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate