Incident date: 2017-02-21
NAICS industry code: 236116

An employee was sweeping the area in front of a work site when a flatbed truck containing post tension cables arrived. The truck pulled in through a gate and stopped to begin off-loading the post tension cables. The forklift operator unlatched the post tension cables and then noticed that the truck had stopped near a mound of dirt which the operator could not access with the forklift. When the truck moved forward, a post tension cable shifted and fell off the truck striking the employee who was sweeping in the face causing multiple lacerations and severing the top part of his left ear.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Ear(s)
severity: moderate