Incident date: 2024-08-16
NAICS industry code: 332420

An employee was feeding sets of steel blanks into a machine to manufacture propane tanks. A set of 90 steel blanks were set on a conveyor using a forklift. The employee was manually rotating this set of blanks when the blanks fell on his leg. The employee was hospitalized with an ankle fracture and leg lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate