Incident date: 2025-01-13
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was working on a pole. As the employee was sliding a plate through the middle of the pole from the top, the plate came unhooked from the chain hooks holding it up and it slid through the pole. The employee was under the pole and was struck by the plate, which pinned his hand against the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to all four metacarpal bones in the left hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Structural panels and sheets  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate