Incident date: 2023-01-12
NAICS industry code: 561730

Two employees were assembling a sort bend and raising the component with a chain fall (come-along) when the chain fall dropped and struck them. One employee was struck in the chest and hospitalized. The other sustained minor injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate