Incident date: 2018-11-07
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was laying a cement block on the second floor balcony of a new residential building. At the same time, a crane was hoisting a pallet on the eighth floor when a cement block unit fell from the pallet and struck the employee on the balcony. This knocked the employee from the balcony to the ground floor below. The employee suffered a fractured clavicle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate