Incident date: 2018-06-01
NAICS industry code: 515120

An employee was on a ladder installing a new aerial cable on a utility pole at a height of 15 to 20 feet when a car caught the aerial cable with its bumper and began pulling it down the street. The employee was pulled from the pole and fell, striking a chain link fence before landing on his left side and also hitting a log that was on the ground. He suffered contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate