Incident date: 2015-01-06
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was injured when the brakes on a seven-car string of loaded boxcars let loose. The cars rolled into a four-car string of empty boxcars.  The impact knocked an employee off the four-car string and he fell on the ground. The employee was hospitalized for lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate