Incident date: 2016-08-18
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was in an aerial lift bucket pushing a pine tree when he fell from the bucket and was suspended by his harness/lanyard 6 feet from the bucket. He sustained two crushed discs and was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
code_source: title: Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate