Fractures

Name: Fractures at Peoples Gas
Start: 10/17/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016109780 · 10/17/2016 · Peoples Gas

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Trees, logs, limbs, unspecified

Employer

Name: Peoples Gas
Location: 264 Branan Road, FENELTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 16034
NAICS: 221210
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was repairing a gas leak when a dead tree fell and struck a nearby excavator. A piece of the tree then struck the employee in the head. The employee suffered fractures to the neck vertebrae, back vertebrae, and ribs.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown