# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Capital Electric Line Builders
> OSHA SIR `20241211975` · 12/31/2024 · PARKVILLE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Utility poles
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Capital Electric Line Builders
- **Location:** 1201 East Street, PARKVILLE, MISSOURI, 64152
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A distribution pole broke while a lineman was repositioning on the pole. The employee struck the cut-out bracket when they fell. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture, broken teeth, and lacerations to the back of the head and the chin.

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