Incident date: 2022-01-25
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee positioned himself under a piece of equipment to loosen a grease fitting, a metal fitting used to feed lubricants into a bearing under moderate to high pressure using a grease gun. The equipment slipped forward and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in a lower leg fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate