# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Central Maine Power Company
> OSHA SIR `2025077117` · 7/22/2025 · CUSHING, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Utility poles
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Maine Power Company
- **Location:** Hawthorne Point Road, CUSHING, MAINE, 04563
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew of employees were working to replace a utility pole that was broken by a motor vehicle accident. As the crew was removing equipment from the broken pole, part of the pole broke, fell on the injured employee, and rolled over him. The employee sustained two broken shoulders, multiple broken ribs, and a damaged lung that required hospitalization and surgery.

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