Incident date: 2023-04-11
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was unloading telephone poles for horizontal storage when a pole slipped off a stack and rolled onto the employee, knocking him to the ground and pinning his leg. The employee sustained a crushing injury to the foot area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Utility and telephone poles
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate