Incident date: 2022-05-20
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was tearing down a heat exchanger component on a vacuum furnace. He was using a bottle jack to lift one end of the heat exchanger when the exchanger tipped over and landed on him. The employee sustained fractures to his pelvis and right scapula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Furnaces, heaters
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate