Incident date: 2021-02-04
NAICS industry code: 541990

An employee was in the rear of the property looking for an electric service handhole. The employee stepped onto a plastic stool bench in order to see over the fence. The employee lost his balance and suffered a puncture injury underneath the armpit from climbing spikes protruding from a  communications pole.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Step ladders
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate