Incident date: 2017-08-04
NAICS industry code: 335311

An employee was standing next to two coworkers who were removing a shipping brace from a core and coil when the shipping brace slipped out of a coworker's hand and hit the employee in back of the head. The employee suffered a laceration and skull fracture, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate