OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #764357
PACIFIC BELL TELEPHONE
PALMDALE, CA·
Event description
FALL - UTILITY POLE BROKE
Investigation abstract
A telephone worker had climbed a temporary wooden utility pole to install a temp orary communication line. The pole broke at the base, and the employee fell with it to the ground. He died of injuries sustained in the fall.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 527
- Human factor
- 16
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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