Incident date: 2023-10-09
NAICS industry code: 332998

While preparing a core mold for pouring, an employee used a crane and a lifting fixture to flip the mold. As the mold flipped, a 125-pound portion of the mold fell from the flask and landed on the employee's lower right leg, resulting in hospitalization for closed fractures to the tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate