Incident date: 2021-12-06
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was transferring rigging from the strawline to the wire board during a line pull on a 345kV transmission line. A wire grip kicked and the rigging fell and struck the employee, resulting in multiple fractures and internal injuries. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate