Incident date: 2019-11-19
NAICS industry code: 237990

Employees were moving a 35-foot utility pole using a pole truck equipped with a tension hook. When the utility pole was raised, it broke and struck the injured employee causing three broken bones in the neck and a broken left tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate