Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was using a hoist as part of the cleaning process for a reaction vessel. While moving the basket/screen that sits atop the vessel, a hoist strap on the spreader bar caught and then sprang loose. The employee was struck in the face fracturing maxillary and nasal spine bones and causing a laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate