Incident date: 2018-11-20
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was unloading poles with another employee when one employee dropped his end of the pole and the other end bounced and hit the injured employee in the jaw. The employee was hospitalized with a broken jawbone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Towers, poles, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Jaw, chin
severity: moderate