Incident date: 2015-08-17
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was helping to prepare an electrical transformer for shipment to a customer's location. The transformer was moved to a pallet. When a forklift approached the pallet to pick it up, the transformer began to lean and then fall toward the ground. The employee, in an attempt to stop the 1,200-pound transformer from falling, reached out his left arm, which was then crushed between the transformer and the work table. He fractured his left forearm (ulnar and radius) and all five digits on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Power lines, transformers, convertors
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate