# Fractures at Blackwood Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2025076984` · 7/18/2025 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Utility poles
- **Secondary source:** Log loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Blackwood Solutions
- **Location:** 3565 126th Ave N, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33762
- **NAICS:** 488510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a concrete utility pole from a log loader to place in a pole rack for storage at the delivery site. The employee raised the pole. The pole spun around and released from the grapple/boom and fell, striking the employee. The employee sustained fractures to their arm and pelvis.

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