Incident date: 2021-11-01
NAICS industry code: 221122

Two employees were climbing a utility pole to replace a wire. The pole broke and the employees fell, landing on the ground and suffering leg abrasions and fractures to the face, a left femur, and vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low