OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221420201

ARMSTRONG UTILITIES INC.

OXFORD, PA· 2021-12-15T00:00:00

Event: Cable, Cutting, Elec Utility Work, Face, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Ladder, Neck, Nose, Vertebra
NAICS: 238210
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345691844
Employer profile: ARMSTRONG UTILITIES INC.
Summary number: 221420201
Report ID: 0317000
Project type: E
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee falls from ladder, receives fractures to neck, nose

Investigation abstract

At 9:30 a.m. on December 15, 2021, an employee worked from a ladder to conduct service line replacement. While cutting a cable strand at midspan, the employee fell approximately thirty feet from a ladder. The employee was hospitalized to treat fractures to the neck (cervical vertebra), nose and orbital bone.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 35 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
213

Fall distance
30

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