Incident date: 2016-09-27
NAICS industry code: 238990

Employees building a lake deck were using a mechanical pile driver to drive piling into a lake bed. The rope broke as the hammer was being raised, and the hammer fell and struck one of the employees. The employee suffered facial trauma, a broken left shoulder, and a left arm laceration.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate