Incident date: 2018-01-30
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was under a tractor-trailer placing masking tape on items to be painted while a second employee was working on the airline for the air brakes. The second employee then tested the airlines, which caused a rear axel to fall on the first employee's left leg. The employee suffered lacerations and a possible fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate