OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888396
FRACTURE,POWER LINE WORKER,INEXPERIENCE,ELEC UTILITY WORK,FALL,FALL PROTECTION,CUTOUT--GAFF
Event description
FALL - POLE CLIMBER CUTOUT
Investigation abstract
An employee was in a training class for climbing utility poles. She was practici ng rotating around the pole. Her pole climber cut out; and she fell, with her po sitioning strap around the pole, about 7.6 meters to hard compact soil. She sust ained multiple fractures and was hospitalized for her injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 8
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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