Incident date: 2021-02-15
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was sweeping and shoveling chips, wood debris, and sawdust around a chipper. A wood slab on the chipper's conveyor hit the employee in the head. The employee fell to the concrete floor and suffered head trauma, orbital and nasal fractures, and a forehead laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Chippers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate