Incident date: 2019-08-07
NAICS industry code: 811412

An employee was on a ladder attempting to put a belt on an exhaust fan when the fan began spinning.  The pulley popped out and hit him on the head, knocking him off the ladder. He suffered a cervical spinal cord injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate