# Fractures at Idaho Power Company
> OSHA SIR `2017099428` · 9/30/2017 · BOISE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Power lines, transformers, convertors
## Employer
- **Name:** Idaho Power Company
- **Location:** 1221 W Idaho St, BOISE, IDAHO, 83702
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in an elevated bucket stringing electric wire when the wire came out of the stringer/keeper and fell on the employee's right forearm, breaking it.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*