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Accident: 14321590 - Employee Killed When Struck By Falling Utility Pole

Accident: 14321590 -- Report ID: 0317500 -- Event Date: 08/23/1991
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
10746293908/29/19911542Adam Eidemiller Inc.
Employee #1 was felling a tree. As the tree fell it caught a guidewire to a utility pole equipped with a transformer. The utility pole cracked and fell, and the section of the utility pole with the transformer struck Employee #1, killing him.
Keywords: tree felling, work rules, caught by, construction, struck by, falling object, utility pole
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 107462939 Fatality Fracture Occupation not reported

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