# Fractures at Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024076765` · 7/25/2024 · CLYMER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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