Incident date: 2023-03-09
NAICS industry code: 488210

Employees were removing fasteners from an aluminum side sheet of a railcar coal gondola. The side of the rail car collapsed onto the employees' lower extremities, resulting in fractured legs and pelvis and a head injury. Two employees were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in collapsing structure, equipment, or material, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: low