Incident date: 2016-05-14
NAICS industry code: 321113

Two maintenance employees were working to replace carriage arms on a stacker machine. After they dislodged the pins that held the two carriage arms in place, the arms did not swing free. An employee standing on a support beam struck the right-side carriage arm with a hammer to free it. The arms struck an employee, fracturing the employee's left-foot metatarsal bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: moderate