Incident date: 2023-07-20
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was helping to remove a water heater from a hotel using a hand truck. While they were moving the water heater down a set of stairs, the water heater fell and struck the employee, resulting in contusions, abrasions, and deep tissue injury. The employee was hospitalized and needed multiple surgeries.

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: Cuts and abrasions or bruises
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate