Incident date: 2020-05-22
NAICS industry code: 327211

An employee was walking near a steel platform performing maintenance when the wire ropes holding the platform snapped, causing the platform to strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a slight fracture to the spine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate