Incident date: 2025-02-09
NAICS industry code: 213112

The injured employee was walking down the pit-side steps as other employees were breaking a bit off the last collar. While backing out, the collar broke off. The collar fell 30 feet to the ground and bounced, striking the injured employee's head and hand. The employee sustained several fractured bones and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine parts  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head and extremities
severity: moderate