Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Clymer Hill Rd and Brownell Rd, CLYMER, NEW YORK 14724
on — Fractures , affecting the Upper arm(s).
Final 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.
Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Electric parts n.e.c.
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