Incident date: 2015-08-24
NAICS industry code: 115112

An employee was installing a new fertilizer pump and hoisting it up with a chain when a link on the chain broke. The pump fell and struck the employee in the left leg causing a severe laceration and breaking the lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pumps
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate