Incident date: 2019-09-11
NAICS industry code: 237310

Three employees were disassembling a lattice boom crane. One of the employees took a pin out of the crane by hitting it with a sledgehammer. A section of the boom then struck the employee on his right side, fracturing his clavicle, ribs, and femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate