Incident date: 2020-11-17
NAICS industry code: 332993

An employee was working from a set of portable metal stairs, cleaning ammunition rounds with a drill brush. The wheel from a cart struck the stairs as the cart was pulled forward, causing the employee's leg to slip off the stairs and be caught between the stairs and a bollard. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Movable ladders, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate