Incident date: 2022-01-27
NAICS industry code: 332431

At about 8:30 a.m. on January 27, 2022, an employee was clearing a jam in a machine. While he was kneeling beneath a metal pocket on the machine (about 4 feet high, weighing about 10 pounds) that held parts, the pocket was lifted up off the chain and fell out, striking the employee on the head. He suffered a head laceration, a skull fracture, and internal bleeding and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate