Fractures

Name: Fractures at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Start: 7/25/2024

1 hospitalization · 2024076765 · 7/25/2024 · Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Upper arm(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by other falling object n.e.c.
Source: Electric parts n.e.c.
Secondary source: Utility poles

Employer

Name: Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Location: Clymer Hill Rd and Brownell Rd, CLYMER, NEW YORK, 14724
NAICS: 221122
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An overhead line crew was replacing a sub-transmission pole with distribution underbuilt. While dismantling the old pole hardware a glass insulator weighing approximately 27 pounds fell approximately 30 feet and stuck the injured employee, who was on the ground, in the upper right arm, breaking their humerus.

Source

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