Incident date: 2022-11-07
NAICS industry code: 339950

An employee was preparing to move an extrusion bundle of steel, which was on a cart. The bundle tipped onto one side and crushed, lacerated, and fractured the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate