Incident date: 2020-08-17
NAICS industry code: 541320

An employee was in a boom truck, cutting limbs off a tree. He made a notch on a limb that forced the boom down and he was ejected, landing on the ground 15-20 feet below. He suffered a fractured skull and fractured vertebrae. Fall protection was not tied in at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate