Incident date: 2023-01-31
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was using a pry bar to remove a coupler attached to a carrier plate from the end of a railcar. The coupler and the carrier plate fell, catching his left hand against a gear table. He suffered three broken bones and a laceration to the hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate