Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Name: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Southwestern Electric Power Company
Start: 9/20/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017099022 · 9/20/2017 · Southwestern Electric Power Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Cause

Event: Fall or jump curtailed by personal fall arrest system
Source: Utility and telephone poles

Employer

Name: Southwestern Electric Power Company
Location: 1436 Farmington Rd., DELTONA, FLORIDA, 32725
NAICS: 221122
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was ascending a pole to make electrical repairs after a hurricane when his climbing gaff (the nail of the climbing hooks that go into the pole) struck a metal washer in the wooden pole, causing him to hit his jaw on the wooden pole. The back of his neck was then punctured by a wooden splinter on the pole. He hung about 25 feet in the air with his fall arrest system. He was hospitalized.

Source

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