Incident date: 2018-10-04
NAICS industry code: 332420

Two employees had rigged a 3,000-pound tank to a crane hook using straps. The straps slipped off the hook and the tank fell, hitting one of the employees. The employee suffered broken vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Containers, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate