Incident date: 2020-07-25
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was performing maintenance on an 8,600-ton shear press. The employee was standing on a metal plate approximately 3.5 feet long by 1.5 feet wide. The metal plate had a weld fail which caused the plate to break and fall into a pit. The employee fell partially into the pit and sustained a fracture to the right femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate