Incident date: 2023-10-26
NAICS industry code: 333517

An employee was inspecting the head stock area of a horizontal boring machine during the testing stage of manufacturing. The employee slipped or misstepped while standing on the machine and fell approximately 2 feet, striking his head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained a brain bleed and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Boring, routing, notching machines
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate