Fall from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Final narrative
Two employees were inside the top of a silo that was filled with corn silage. The employees were positioning an un-loader in the top of the silo to remove the silage. Another employee was positioned at the base of the silo. The employees heard a popping noise and the silo tipped over to the west. The two employees were free moving inside the silo cap and rode it down to the ground. The first employee suffered pelvic and rib injuries. The second employee suffered shoulder, rib, and lung injuries. Both were hospitalized.
An employee was adjusting a scaffold when the scaffold collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 145 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and broken bones in their back.
A lineman was tied off at the top of a power pole, lowering a deactivated power line from the pole. The base of the pole broke and fell; the lineman fell approximately 40 feet, sustaining injuries to the hip and the side of his body. He was hospitalized.
At 1:00 p.m. on September 15, 2022, an employee was on a utility pole disconnecting its cross-arms. The pole broke and the employee fell with it onto adjacent tree branches, then to the ground 30 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple contusions and fractures to the head and torso as well as internal bleeding.
An employee was installing a beam when the other beam he was using as an anchor point for his fall arrest system failed. The employee fell 45 feet to the ground, resulting in broken ribs.
An employee was working on top of an elevator car removing counterweights. The elevator car was being lowered when the coffing hoist holding it up snapped and the elevator car and the employee fell from the 10th floor to the basement. The employee sustained broken bones.